Plato quotes
Absence of grace and inharmonious movement and discord are nearly allied to ill words and ill nature, as grace and harmony are the sisters and images of goodness and virtue.
- Plato
All knowledge that is divorced from justice must be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Plato
All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, and in all of them a woman is only a lesser man.
- Plato
An orator's virtue is to speak the truth.
- Plato
As the saying is, the people who would avoid the slavery of freemen, which is smoke and appearance, has fallen under the tyranny of slaves, which is fire.
- Plato
Beauty is a natural superiority.
- Plato
Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing and, therefore, of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. And I further add that the good is the beautiful.
- Plato
Beauty, goodness, justice, and the like, each exists in and for itself.
- Plato
Certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, you have escaped from the control not of one master, but of many.
- Plato
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another…..Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain, for eternity is then only a single night.
- Plato