Quotes by Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
I would fain grow old learning many things.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
