Quotes from Plato

virtuoso, aunque se jacte de ello, le reprenderé por desestimar lo más valioso y sobrestimar lo que tiene menos valor.

Of old the saying, "Nothing too much," appeared to be, and really was, well said. For he whose happiness rests with himself, if possible, wholly, and if not, as far as is possible,—who is not hanging in suspense on other men, or changing with the vicissitude of their fortune,—has his life ordered for the best.

The man who is ruled by desire and enslaved to pleasure will make the one he loves as pleasing to himself as possible; and to a sick man anything which does not resist him is pleasant

NICIAS: To that I quite agree, if Socrates is willing to take them under his charge. I should not wish for any one else to be the tutor of Niceratus. But I observe that when I mention the matter to him he recommends to me some other tutor and refuses himself. Perhaps he may be more ready to listen to you, Lysimachus.

But I cannot advise that we remain as we are. And if any one laughs at us for going to school at our age, I would quote to them the authority of Homer, who says, that 'Modesty is not good for a needy man.' Let us then, regardless of what may be said of us, make the education of the youths our own education.

Manusia tidak mencapai kebenaran dalam semua aspeknya, dan tidak akan terjatuh ke dalam kesalahan dalam semua aspeknya.

Tears were fated for Hekabe and Ilium's women from the day of their birth, but Dion, just when you triumphed with famous works, all your wandering hopes were cast down by the gods. Now dead in your spacious city, you are honored by patriots— But I was one who loved you, O Dion!

LACHES: True. SOCRATES: And now on the contrary we are saying that the foolish endurance, which was before held in dishonour, is courage. LACHES: Very true. SOCRATES: And are we right in saying so? LACHES: Indeed, Socrates, I am sure that we are not right.

Even the fragments of his words when 'repeated at second-hand' (Symp.) have in all ages ravished the hearts of men, who have seen reflected in them their own higher nature. He is the father of idealism in philosophy, in politics, in literature. And many of the latest conceptions of modern thinkers and statesmen, such as the unity of knowledge, the reign of law, and the equality of the sexes, have been anticipated in a dream by him.

LACHES: I think that you put the question to him very well, Socrates; and I would like him to say what is the nature of this knowledge or wisdom. NICIAS: I mean to say, Laches, that courage is the knowledge of that which inspires fear or confidence in war, or in anything. LACHES: How strangely he is talking, Socrates.

It is better to be unborn than untaught: for ignorance is the root of misfortune.

Y así, Trasímaco --- dije yo-, nadie que tiene gobierno, en cuanto es gobernante, examina ni ordena lo conveniente para sí mismo, sino lo conveniente para el gobernado y sujeto a su arte, y dice cuanto dice y hace todo cuanto hace mirando a éste y a su conveniencia y ventaja.

My girlfriend was Archeanassa from Kolophon and her wrinkles are scars of a sour love. Pain, horror. On her first voyage she loved a graceful young man, and passed through fire.

Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.

un hombre valiente, que sepa combatir sus pasiones, sea resistiéndolas a pie firme, sea huyendo de ellas, porque el valor, Laques, se extiende a todas estas cosas.

My child, Star, you gaze at the stars, and I wish I were the firmament that I might watch you with many eyes.

And that reputation was a true one, for the defeat which came upon us was our own doing. We were never conquered by others, and to this day we are still unconquered by them; but we were our own conquerors, and received defeat at our own hands.

Cuando se hizo al hombre partícipe de las cualidades divinas, fue el único de todos los animales, que a causa del parentesco que le unía con el ser divino, se convenció de que existen dioses, les levantó altares y les dedicó estatuas.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Cuando se trata de los negocios que corresponden puramente a la política, como la política versa siempre sobre la justicia y la templanza, entonces escuchan a todo el mundo y con razón, porque todos están obligados a tener estas virtudes, pues que de otra manera no hay sociedad.

we become what we contemplate.

Dear Crito, your zeal is invaluable, if a right one; but if wrong, the greater the zeal the greater the danger;

Yes; the meaning is only too clear. But, oh! my beloved Socrates, let me entreat you once more to take my advice and escape.

Temperance, which they nickname Unmanliness...