Quotes from Plato

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... this and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.

The fairest music is that which delights the best and best educated.

Matilah dengan iradat, tetapi hiduplah dengan tabiat.

O que digo é que é pela beleza em si que as coisas belas são belas.

Lo que no es ni malo ni bueno es, pues, amigo de lo bueno por [b] causa de lo malo y de lo odioso, y con vistas a un bien amigo.

only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it

Always seek wisdom and live a virtuous life.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

And from Eretria they went to Marathon with a like intention, expecting to bind the Athenians in the same yoke of necessity in which they had bound the Eretrians. Having effected one-half of their purpose, they were in the act of attempting the other, and none of the Hellenes dared to assist either the Eretrians or the Athenians, except the Lacedaemonians, and they arrived a day too late for the battle;

Cuando el fin es sublime, todo lo que se sufre para conseguirlo no lo es menos.

After a moment's pause, in which he made a real manly effort to think, he said: My opinion is, Socrates, that temperance makes a man ashamed or modest, and that temperance is the same as modesty. Very good, I said; and did you not admit, just now, that temperance is noble?

In men the nature of the genital organs is disobedient and self-willed, like a creature that is deaf to reason, and it attempts to dominate all because of its frenzied lusts.

And I assert that those men are the fathers not only of ourselves, but of our liberties and of the liberties of all who are on the continent, for that was the action to which the Hellenes looked back when they ventured to fight for their own safety in the battles which ensued: they became disciples of the men of Marathon.

To them, therefore, I assign in my speech the first place, and the second to those who fought and conquered in the sea fights at Salamis and Artemisium; for of them, too, one might have many things to say—of the assaults which they endured by sea and land, and how they repelled them.

He is the God who sits in the center, on the navel of the earth, and he is the interpreter of religion to all mankind

My first observation is, that your lawgiver ordered you to endure hardships, because he thought that those who had not this discipline would run away from those who had. But he ought to have considered further, that those who had never learned to resist pleasure would be equally at the mercy of those who had, and these are often among the worst of mankind. Pleasure, like fear, would overcome them and take away their courage and freedom.

Now in the days of Cronos there existed a law respecting the destiny of man, which has always been, and still continues to be in Heaven,—that he who has lived all his life in justice and holiness shall go, when he is dead, to the Islands of the Blessed, and dwell there in perfect happiness out of the reach of evil; but that he who has lived unjustly and impiously shall go to the house of vengeance and punishment, which is called Tartarus.

And is not shrewdness a quickness or cleverness of the soul, and not a quietness?

And is it not best to understand what is said, whether at the writing-master's or the music-master's, or anywhere else, not as quietly as possible, but as quickly as possible? Yes.

For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

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From this tale, Callicles, which I have heard and believe, I draw the following inferences:—Death, if I am right, is in the first place the separation from one another of two things, soul and body; nothing else.

tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This

Estrangeiro - Ora, errar nada mais é do que se desviar do seu caminho a alma, quando intenta alcançar a verdade, sem passar ao lado dela o entendimento.