Plato

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

Plato

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Plato

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know – or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

Plato

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

Plato

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

Well, you know what happens to lovers: whenever they see a lyre, a garment or anything else that their beloved is accustomed to use, they know the lyre, and the image of the boy to whom it belongs comes into their mind.

Plato

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

Plato

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Plato

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Plato