Plato Quotes

Love is a grave mental illness.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

There is truth in wine and children

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Knowledge is true opinion.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Adultery is the injury of nature.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

Through obedience learn to command.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

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

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.