Quotes from Plato

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.