Quote

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

Plato

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
State
Sense
States
Take
Founded
Right
Complete
Good
Built
Lines
Word

More quotes by Plato

Image
Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
Plato
Image
You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.
Plato
Image
Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
Plato
Image
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it
Plato
Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
Plato
Image
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.
Plato
Image
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Plato
Image
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
Plato
Image
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato
Image
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.
Plato
Image
The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
Plato
Image
An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
Plato
Image
Let brother help brother.
Plato
Image
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
Plato
Image
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
Plato
Image
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
Image
Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
Plato
Image
Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.
Plato
Image
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Plato
Image
for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
Plato