Quotes from Plato

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

You should not honor men more than truth.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

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

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.