Quotes from Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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

Life must be lived as play.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

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.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

True friendship can exist only between equals.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Even the gods love jokes.

And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.