Plato Quotes

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.

The first and best victory is to conquer self

Love is a serious mental illness

The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

Is there a perfect world?

...we must go where the argument carries us, as a vessel runs before the wind.

Zeno: The many do not know that except by this devious passage through all things the mind cannot attain to the truth.

Time is the moving image of reality

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Beauty is the splendor of truth.

(Die Schönheit ist der Glanz der Wahrheit)

χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

Nothing beautiful without struggle.

Magic consists of, and is acquired by the worship of the gods.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.