Plato

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

Plato

Science is nothing but perception.

Plato

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

Plato

So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,-for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

Plato

So the nature required to make a really noble guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

Plato

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

Plato

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government’s lust for rule and the subjects’ cowardice.

Plato

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

Plato

Star of my life, to the stars your face is turned; Would I were the heavens, looking back at you with ten thousand eyes.

Plato

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Plato