All Plato Quotes
- True friendship can exist only between equals. Equals
- 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… Born
- All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance All
- The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. Beautiful
- What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play. Careers
- And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases. Cesspools
- The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he… Common
- Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would… Accounts
- Nothing ever is, everything is becoming. Becoming
- 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… Abroad
- So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. Clarity
- What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. Appearance
- Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp Education
- Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and… Affirm
- To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. Disgraceful
- 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… All
- Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. Afraid
- ... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible... Care
- If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul. Begin
- Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.... Activity