About Plato

"Socrates: Government is the nurture of man, and the government of good men is good, and of bad men bad (Menexenus)"

"Socrates: When the division of our task is concluded, let us find the point at which we digressed, and return into the old path (Republic)"

"Athenian: The ruler of the universe has ordered all things with a view to the excellence and preservation of the whole (Laws)"

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"Socrates: If death was the end of all, the wicked would have a good bargain in dying (Phaedo)"

"Socrates: The greater my confidence in my conversant, the greater is my difficulty in knowing what to say (Republic)"

"Socrates: The lover who is true and no counterfeit must of necessity be loved by his love (Lysis)"

"Athenian Stranger: The laws relating to marriage should be those which are first determined in every state (Laws)"

"Socrates: Each pleasure and pain is a sort of nail which nails and rivets the soul to the body (Phaedo)"

"Ctesippus: I should greatly prefer a real friend to all the gold of Darius, or even to Darius himself (Lysis)"

"Socrates: No man should be angry at what is true (Statesman)"

"Athenian Stranger: God governs all things, and chance and opportunity co-operate with Him in the government of human affairs (Laws4)"

"Socrates: Athenians do not trouble themselves about a man until he begins to impart wisdom to others... then they are angry (Euthyphro)"

"Socrates would have loved twitter. The agora was always too small for him. For me, it was always a bit too big."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Socrates: Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity (Republic)"

"Timaeus: I pray him to give me knowledge, which of all medicines is the most perfect and best (Critias)"

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"Socrates: I must be absolved from promises made in ignorance, for these were promises of the lips and not of the mind (Symposium)"

"Socratest: If any one at all is to have the privilege of lying, the rulers of the State should be the persons (Republic3)"