Quotes from Plato

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Pour Aristophane, Éros est le seul dieu qui puisse nous permettre de réaliser ce à quoi tend tout être humain : la réunion avec la moitié de lui-même dont il a été séparé par Zeus.

You were the Morning Star among the living. In death, O Evening Star, you light the dead.

ha habido razón para decir que hay ciertas opiniones que debemos respetar y otras que debemos despreciar

The unjust man enjoys life better than the just. book 2

Las opiniones buenas no son las de los sabios, y las malas las de los necios?

You say that you have a dog. Yes, a villain of a one, said Ctesippus. And he has puppies? Yes, and they are very like himself. And the dog is the father of them? Yes, he said, I certainly saw him and the mother of the puppies come together. And is he not yours? To be sure he is. Then he is a father, and he is yours; ergo, he is your father, and the puppies are your brothers.

As I kissed Agathon my soul swelled to my lips, where it hangs, pitiful, hoping to leap across.

Coloro che sono capaci di vedere oltre le ombre e le bugie della propria cultura non saranno mai capiti, tanto meno creduti, dalle masse.

Women do not like to forgo the 'luxuries of life' and 'conspicuous consumption

de dos hombres que caminan juntos, el uno ve lo que el otro no ve».[27]

Men engrossed in the pursuit of money are unfit to rule a state.

In a city composed wholly of good men there would be a great unwillingness to rule

Each of us, then, is a token of a human, since we've been sliced like a flatfish and made two out of one. So everyone's always searching for his own token.

Justice is effective coordination in the affairs of a state

Soma sèma estin.

él cree saberlo aunque no sepa nada, y yo, no sabiendo nada, creo no saber.

Antes andaba vacilante por uno y otro lado, y creyendo llevar una vida racional, era el más desgraciado de los hombres.

If everything belongs to everybody, nobody will take care of anything.

he really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt.

En esa parte del alma, verdaderamente divina, es donde es preciso mirarse, y contemplar allí todo lo divino, es decir, Dios y la sabiduría, para conocerse a sí mismo perfectamente.

Wonder (???????) is the only beginning of philosophy, and he was a good genealogist who made Iris the daughter of Thaumas

Moreover, in fits of anger, in fears, in the disturbances that come over souls in bad fortune and the release from such things that comes with good fortune, in the experiences brought by diseases and wars and poverty, and the experiences brought upon human beings by the opposite circumstances — in all such situations what is noble and what is ignoble in each case must be taught and defined.