All Plato Quotes
- Love is a severe mental disorder. Disorder
- Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it. Access
- God ever geometrizes. Funny
- O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse… Become Worse
- May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me. Ethics
- When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war Always Stirring
- Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. Amuses
- As the government is, such will be the man. Government
- Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and… Best
- I must yield to you, for you are irresistible. Inspirational
- Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man. Excellent
- The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful. Affair
- What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character… Adapted
- Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends. Enemies
- Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'? Economics
- Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way… All
- And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… Abolition
- And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others,… Both
- A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! Alike
- If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would… All
- Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Art
- . . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is… Art
- Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human… All
- Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this… Another Now
- We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light? Afraid