Quotes from Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

You're my star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

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

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.