Plato Quotes

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

The first and best victory is to conquer self

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

"To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Man is a being in search of meaning.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.