Plato Quotes

"The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.,."

2026-03-30 18:21:08 UTC

"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.,."

2026-03-30 06:21:06 UTC

"Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up."

2026-03-29 06:21:07 UTC

"Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended."

2026-03-28 18:21:06 UTC

"Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole."

2026-03-28 06:21:09 UTC

"True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable."

2026-03-27 18:21:06 UTC

"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.,."

2026-03-27 06:21:07 UTC

"Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it, but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them."

2026-03-26 18:21:06 UTC

"It seems to me that many fall into it even against their will, and fancy they are discussing, when they are merely debating, because they cannot distinguish the meanings of a term, in their investigation of any question, but carry on their opposition to what is stated, by attacking the mere words, employing the art of debate, and not that of philosophical discussion."

2026-03-26 06:21:06 UTC

"All learning is in the learner, not the teacher."

2026-03-25 18:21:07 UTC

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

2026-03-25 06:21:08 UTC

2026-03-24 18:21:08 UTC

"Democracy passes into despotism."

2026-03-24 06:21:08 UTC

"Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes."

2026-03-23 18:21:08 UTC

"Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.,."

2026-03-23 06:21:08 UTC

"The excellence and righteousness for each thing depend solely on the use for which it was created. This naturally means that the user has the most experience of it and must tell the maker how it works best."

2026-03-22 18:21:07 UTC

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

2026-03-21 18:21:07 UTC

"Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been."

2026-03-21 06:21:51 UTC

"A house that has a library in it has a soul."

2026-03-20 18:21:07 UTC

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2026-03-20 06:21:08 UTC

"I have good hope that there is something after death."

2026-03-19 18:21:06 UTC

"A work well begun is half ended."

2026-03-19 06:21:06 UTC

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

2026-03-18 18:21:08 UTC

"The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man."

2026-03-18 06:21:08 UTC

"All knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom."

2026-03-17 18:21:07 UTC

"I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once done, it becomes my duty to go back to the cave in order to illuminate the minds of those imprisoned in the ‘darkness’ of sensory knowledge."

2026-03-17 06:21:09 UTC

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

2026-03-16 18:21:08 UTC

"An accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."

2026-03-16 06:21:06 UTC

"Most men in power become villains."

2026-03-15 18:21:07 UTC

"The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good."

2026-03-15 06:21:06 UTC

"To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.,."

2026-03-14 18:21:08 UTC

"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."

2026-03-14 06:21:06 UTC

"The true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and, at last, knows what the essence of beauty is."

2026-03-13 18:21:07 UTC

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

2026-03-13 06:21:08 UTC

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

2026-03-12 18:21:07 UTC

"Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."

2026-03-12 06:21:07 UTC

"The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge."

2026-03-11 18:21:07 UTC

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

2026-03-11 06:21:06 UTC

"Never discourage anyone. who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

2026-03-10 18:21:07 UTC

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

2026-03-10 06:21:07 UTC

"Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree."

2026-03-09 18:21:07 UTC

"In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection."

2026-03-09 06:21:07 UTC

"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or better than cohesion and unity?"

2026-03-08 18:21:07 UTC

"Ideas are the source of all things."

2026-03-08 06:21:07 UTC

"Let nobody speak mischief of anybody."

2026-03-07 18:21:07 UTC

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

2026-03-07 06:21:07 UTC

"The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price."

2026-03-06 18:21:06 UTC

"I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now."

2026-03-06 06:21:07 UTC

"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."

2026-03-05 18:21:07 UTC

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

2026-03-05 06:21:08 UTC

"Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has."

2026-03-04 18:21:08 UTC

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

2026-03-04 06:21:09 UTC

"Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own."

2026-03-03 18:21:07 UTC

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."

2026-03-03 06:21:06 UTC

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

2026-03-02 18:21:08 UTC

"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.,."

2026-03-02 06:21:07 UTC

"The helpful is beautiful; only the harmful is ugly."

2026-03-01 18:21:08 UTC

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

2026-03-01 06:21:07 UTC

"Of necessity, the most like are most full of envy, strife, and hatred of one another, and the most unlike of friendship. For the poor man is compelled to be the friend of the rich, and the weak requires the aid of the strong, and the sick man of the physician; everyone who knows not has to love and court him who knows."

2026-02-28 18:21:07 UTC

"Never discourage anyone. who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

2026-02-28 06:21:07 UTC

"The thing to be done does not choose, I imagine, to tarry the leisure of the doer, but the doer must be at the beck of the thing to be done, and not treat it as a secondary affair."

2026-02-27 18:21:45 UTC

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."

2026-02-27 06:21:27 UTC

"I used to imagine that no human can make men good; but I know better now."

2026-02-26 18:21:07 UTC

"Life is a short exile."

2026-02-26 06:21:08 UTC

"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."

2026-02-25 18:21:12 UTC

"I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.,."

2026-02-25 06:21:06 UTC

"The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death."

2026-02-24 18:21:07 UTC

"But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?"

2026-02-24 06:21:07 UTC

"There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power."

2026-02-23 18:21:07 UTC

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

2026-02-23 06:21:07 UTC

"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."

2026-02-22 18:21:07 UTC

"Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?"

2026-02-22 06:21:06 UTC

"Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the fill the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas receives nothing from like.,."

2026-02-21 18:21:08 UTC

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

2026-02-21 06:21:07 UTC

"The eyes are the windows of the soul."

2026-02-20 18:21:07 UTC

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

2026-02-20 06:21:07 UTC

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."

2026-02-19 18:21:07 UTC

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."

2026-02-19 06:21:07 UTC

"Is there a perfect world?"

2026-02-18 18:21:08 UTC

"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."

2026-02-18 06:21:07 UTC

"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

2026-02-17 18:21:07 UTC

"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."

2026-02-17 06:21:07 UTC

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

2026-02-16 18:21:07 UTC

"That's what education should be ... the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way."

2026-02-16 06:21:07 UTC

"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."

2026-02-15 18:21:07 UTC

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

2026-02-15 06:21:07 UTC

"Everyone seeks his half."

2026-02-14 18:21:07 UTC

"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."

2026-02-14 06:21:06 UTC

"He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity."

2026-02-13 18:21:08 UTC

"The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another."

2026-02-13 06:21:06 UTC

"Is there a perfect world?"

2026-02-12 18:21:08 UTC

"Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors."

2026-02-12 06:21:07 UTC

"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

2026-02-11 18:21:07 UTC

"Love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good."

2026-02-11 06:21:06 UTC

"It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason."