Quotes from Plato

There have been times, Socrates, when I have been driven in my perplexity to take refuge with Protagoras; not that I agree with him at all.

Any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body.

I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.

Bo dobrze i pi?knie zrobiona rzecz dobr? si? staje; niedobrze zrobiona jest z??. Tak wi?c i kochanie, i Eros nie ka?dy jest pi?kny i uwielbienia wart, lecz ten tylko, co pi?kny rozp?omienia ?ar.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Hay en un Estado señal más segura de una mala y viciosa educación que la necesidad de médicos y de jueces hábiles no sólo para los artesanos y pueblo bajo, sino también para los que se precian de haber sido educados como hombres libres? ¿No es cosa vergonzosa y una prueba insigne de ignorancia el verse forzado a acudir a una justicia extraña por no ser uno mismo justo, y el convertir a los demás en dueños y jueces de su derecho?

El hombre de bien tan pronto es malo, tan pronto bueno.

Los Estados para ser dichosos no tienen necesidad de murallas, ni de buques, ni de arsenales, ni de tropas, ni de gran aparato; la única cosa de que tienen necesidad para su felicidad es la virtud.

but if you wish to get better training, you must do something more than that; you must consider not only what happens if a particular hypothesis is true, but also what happens if it is not true. 135e-136a

For it is clear, on the one hand, that you have been familiar with these things for a long time —whatever you wish to signify when you utter being— and, before this we used to believe it, but now we have been perplexed.

los viciosos no pueden hacerse viciosos, sin que antes hayan sido virtuosos.

because if a human institution gets off to a good and careful start, there is a sort of divine guarantee that it will prosper.

And do you not also think, as I do, that the harsh feeling which the many entertain towards philosophy originates in the pretenders, who rush in uninvited, and are always abusing them, and finding fault with them, who make persons instead of things the theme of their conversation? and nothing can be more unbecoming in philosophers than this.

I know that I know nothing

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting

el placer y el dolor no se encuentran nunca a un mismo tiempo; y sin embargo, cuando se experimenta el uno, es preciso aceptar el otro, como

Education certainly gives victory, although victory sometimes produces forgetfulness of education; for many have grown insolent from victory in war, and this insolence has engendered in them innumerable evils; and many a victory has been and will be suicidal to the victors; but education is never suicidal.

La filosofía es un silencioso diálogo del alma consigo misma en torno al ser.

Always seek wisdom and live a vrituous life.

what is it that always is, but never comes to be, and what is it that comes to be† but never is?

parecerá su conducta poco conforme con estos principios, si no te fijas en que los hombres están poseídos del deseo de crearse un nombre y de adquirir una gloria inmortal en la posteridad; y que este deseo, más que el amor paterno, es el que les hace despreciar todos los peligros, comprometer su fortuna, resistir todas las fatigas y sacrificar su misma vida. ¿Piensas

Eros is] far from being delicate and beautiful, as most people think; on the contrary it is crude and harsh, it walks barefooted, it is homeless, it always sleeps on the floor, on a hard surface, it sleeps outside at night, beside doors and pathways. . . it is always in a state of need.

el más sabio entre vosotros es aquel que reconoce, como Sócrates, que su sabiduría no es nada.»