Plato Quotes

Justice is useful when money is useless.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Kleos is sometimes translated as "acoustic renown" the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.

Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

All learning has an emotional base.

To be is to do.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Oh! may each youthful bosom catch the sacred fire.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Love - a grave mental disease.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.

Necessity who is the mother of our invention.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

States are as the men are they grow out of human characters.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Life must be lived as play.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.