Science is nothing but perception.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smoot...
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonet...
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater mis...
If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.