Quotes from Plato

Hemos de permitir, pues, tan ligeramente que los niños escuchen cualesquiera mitos, forjados por el primero que llegue, y que den cabida en su espíritu a ideas generalmente opuestas a las que creemos necesario que tengan inculcadas al llegar a mayores? -No debemos permitirlo en modo alguno.

And so Love set in order the empire of the gods - the love of beauty, as is evident, for with deformity Love has no concern [. . .] Since the birth of Love, and from the Love of the beautiful, has sprung every good in heaven and earth.

Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form

No science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker

Now early life is very impressible, and children ought not to learn what they will have to unlearn when they grow up; we must therefore have a censorship of nursery tales, banishing some and keeping others.

Have you never observed how invincible and unconquerable is spirit and how the presence of it makes the soul of any creature to be absolutely fearless and indomitable?

Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

cuenta Estesí­coro que, por ignorancia de la verdad, se luchó ante Troya en torno a la apariencia de Helena?

And if you have art, then, as I was saying, in falsifying your promise that you would exhibit Homer, you are not dealing fairly with me. But if, as I believe, you have no art, but speak all these beautiful words about Homer unconsciously under his inspiring influence, then I acquit you of dishonesty, and shall only say that you are inspired. Which do you prefer to be thought, dishonest or inspired? ION:

Both knowledge and truth are beautiful things, but the good is other and more beautiful than they.

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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato)

Or do you think it possible for a city not to be destroyed if the verdicts of its courts have no force but are nullified and set at naught by private individuals?

El miedo es siempre compañero de la vergüenza.

Adic? socoÈ›i dreptatea un defect? - Nu, ci doar o nobil? neghiobie. (Trachymarchos în Republica, de Platon)

Por tanto, ven tanto, de los que perciben muchas cosas bellas, pero no ven lo bello en sí ni pueden seguir a otro que a ello los conduzca y asimismo ven muchas cosas justas, pero no lo justo en sí, y de igual manera todo lo demás, diremos que opinan de todo, pero que no conocen nada de aquello sobre qué opinan.

Once you have the means of life, you must practice virtue.

Mais on ne saurait mieux le faire qu'avec une

I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that others less esteemed were really wiser and better.

Even the Gods love jokes.

Jamais enganar alguém ou mentir, ainda que inadvertidamente, nem ser devedor, quer de sacrifícios aos deuses, quer de dinheiro a uma pessoa, e depois falecer sem nada recear.

The true lover of knowledge is always striving after being - that is his nature; he will not rest in the multiplicity of individuals which is an appearance only, but will go on - the keen edge will not be blunted, nor the force of his desire abate until he have attained the knowledge of the true nature of every essence by a sympathetic and kindred power in the soul.

pas encore quelle est cette vertu, je demande seulement s'ils s'acquittent bien de leur fonction par la vertu qui leur est propre, et mal par un vice contraire. Certainement.

there is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offences, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom; and he who is under the influence of the latter fancies that he knows all about matters of which he knows nothing.