Plato Quotes - Page 4

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

no man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time

good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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

... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.

There is truth in wine and children

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning

a life without investigation is not worth living

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.