Quotes from Plato

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable...

...for the gods too love a joke...

So neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul; and this is the reason why the cure of many diseases is unknown to the physicians, because they are ignorant of the whole, which ought to be studied also; for the part can never be well unless the whole is well... For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

Courage is knowing what no to fear.

I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.