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Philosopher. He was born in Athens of noble parents. His first name was Aristocles, and he was called Plato, because of the breadth of his chest and forehead. He took up poetry as a young man, but quickly devoted himself definitively to philosophy. At the age of twenty, he became attached to Socrates and stayed with him for nine years. His love for him has no equal in history of the devotion of a pupil to a teacher. He made several trips to Egypt, Cyrene, Sicily, Asia Minor to meet many philosophers of the Pythagorean school, in particular.
In Syracuse, he became friends with the tyrant Dionysius and his relatives. Later, because he had displeased the tyrant by his impudence, he, in revenge, sold him to the Spartan ambassador as a slave, to be ransomed by the philosopher Annicerios. After returning to Athens, forty years old, he founded a regular school, the so-called Academy, which took its name from the place where it was dedicated to the hero Akadimos. In his Academy, Plato taught for 42 years, and his students formed a kind of scientific association, which was maintained until 525 AD. He died in Athens at the age of 81, on his birthday. His tomb, in Kerameikos, was preserved until the years of Pausanias. He wrote the "Apology" of Socrates, whose philosophy he exposes, completes, systematizes and praises.
Platonic philosophy deals with the nature of the "sensible" and "supersensible" world, and is the first universal system in history. The influence of this system on the later world was incalculable.
Works
- Apology of Socrates
- Symposium
- Laws
- Republic
- Phaedrus
- Timo
- Critias
- Theaetetus
- Protagoras
- Gorgias
- Sophist
- Political
- Philevus
- Parmenides
- Cratelus
- Phaedo
- Eythedemus
- Menexenus
- Laches
- Lysis
- Alceviades
- Lovers
- Eythyphro
- Crito
- Ion
- Hippias major
- Hippias minor
- Hipparchus
- Theages
- Charmides
- Meno
- Cleitophon
- Mino
- Epinomis
- Terms
- Adulterated
- Letters
Quotes
- THE MOST PROFITABLE IS THE MOST CONSISTENT WITH ITS NATURE
- IDEAS EXIST IN NATURE AS PATTERNS AND ALL OTHERS LOOK LIKE THEM AND ARE SIMILAR TO THEM
- IF THERE IS MEMORY, THERE ARE IDEAS IN THINGS
- HABIT IS NOT SMALL
- NOONE WHO IS SLEEPING IS WORTH ANYTHING
- THE MOST PLEASURABLE THING TO LISTEN TO IS THE TRUTH
- JUSTICE IS A SUPREME VIRTUE
- THE SOUL IS IMMORTAL AND PASSES THROUGH MANY BODIES
- GOD IS MIND AND CAUSE
- MATTER IS FORMLESS AND INFINITE
- THE WORLD IS ONE AND HAS BEEN CREATED BECAUSE IT IS SENSIBLE AND MADE BY GOD
- THE SOULFUL IS SUPERIOR TO THE SOULESS
- THE CAUSE OF ALL GENESIS IS GOD, BECAUSE GOOD BY ITS NATURE PRODUCES GOOD
- THE WORLD IS MADE OF FIRE, WATER, AIR AND EARTH
- TIME WAS CREATED AS AN IMAGE OF ETERNITY
- AT THE SAME TIME THAT THE WORLD EXISTS, TIME ALSO EXISTS
- PRINCIPLES AND CAUSES ARE GOD AND MATTER
- GOD LIKE THE SOUL IS INCORPORATE
- VIRTUE IS ENOUGH TO ACHIEVE BLISS
- GODS OVERSEE HUMAN AFFAIRS. THERE ARE DEMONS TOO
- BEAUTIFUL IS THE WORTHY, THE RATIONAL, THE USEFUL, THE APPROPRIATE AND SUITABLE
- JUSTICE IS DIVINE LAW
- JUSTICE, WISDOM, COURAGE AND PRUDENCE ARE IN THE SOUL
- BEAUTY, FITNESS, HEALTH AND STRENGTH ARE IN THE BODY
- THOSE WHO RETURN THAT WHICH WAS BORROWED AND THAT WHICH WAS TRUSTED TO THEM, ACT FAIRLY TO PEOPLE
- THOSE WHO TAKE CARE OF THE GRAVES ARE JUST TOWARDS THE DEPARTED
- THOSE WHO TAKE CARE OF SACRAMENTS ARE DEVOUT TO THE GODS
- THE LAWS ARE WRITTEN AND UNWRITTEN
- BEAUTY IS AESTHETIC, PRACTICAL AND USEFUL
- THE SOUL IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS: REASON, EMOTIONS, DESIRES
- PRUDENCE IS THE CAUSE OF RIGHT ACTIONS
- JUSTICE IS THE REASON TO BE FAIR IN OUR ASSOCIATIONS AND DEALINGS
- FROM COURAGE BEGINS THE LACK OF HESITATION TO FACE RISKS
- PRUDENCE HELPS TO CONTROL OUR DESIRES, NOT TO BECOME SLAVES OF PLEASURES AND TO LIVE WITH DECENCY
- ACCORDING TO NATURE THE MALE HOLDS AUTHORITY
- POWER IS EXERCISED BY LAW, BY NATURE, BY CUSTOM, BY ORIGIN AND BY VIOLENCE
- WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID MUST BENEFIT BOTH THE SPEAKER AND THE LISTENER
- BENEFICENCE IS MADE WITH MONEY, WITH PHYSICAL HELP, WITH KNOWLEDGE AND WITH WORDS
- POWER IS IN MIND, IN BODY, IN MONEY, IN ACTIONS AND IN EXPERIENCES
- HAPPINESS CONSISTS IN RIGHT JUDGMENT, SENSITIVITY AND HEALTH OF THE BODY, SUCCESS, GOOD REPUTATION AND FINANCIAL COMFORT
- SOME ADVICES ARE TAKEN FROM THE PAST, SOME FROM THE PRESENT AND SOME FROM THE FUTURE
- THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF HUMAN CHARACTERS: THE PHILOSOPHER, THE AMBITIOUS AND THE GREEDY
- IMPUNITY MAKES EVIL EVEN WORSE
- EVIL IS EVERYTHING THAT CAUSES DECAY AND DESTRUCTION AND GOOD EVERYTHING THAT SAVES AND BENEFITS
- THE SOUL IS IMMORTAL AND CAPABLE OF ENDURING ALL BAD AND ALL GOOD
- LEARNING IS REMEMBERING
- THE SOUL HAS A HIDDEN TREASURE WITHIN IT. WELL GUIDED, DISCOVERS ITS TREASURES
- VIRTUE IS RIGHT BELIEF THAT COMES FROM GOD
- THE SOUL IS IMMORTAL AND KNOWS ALL
- VIRTUE IS A DIVINE GIFT
- BEAUTY IS A NATURAL ADVANTAGE
- MUSIC AND GYMNASTICS ARE GOD'S GIFTS TO MAN
- WOMEN AMONG THE WISE SHOULD BE COMMON AND EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH ANYONE
- SPERM IS SECRETED FROM THE BRAIN AND SPINE
- BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY IS ADMIRATION
- PHILOSOPHY IS THE HIGHEST KIND OF MUSIC
- IT IS NOT PERMITTED FOR ONE TO DO VIOLENCE AGAINST HIMSELF
- THE GODS ARE THE ONES WHO TAKE CARE AND WE HUMANS BELONG TO THEM
- AMONG FRIENDS EVERYTHING IS COMMON
- PLEASURE IS A TERRIBLE BAIT
- WHO COULD LIKE A CITY WITHOUT LAWS
- THE WORST FORM OF INJUSTICE IS FOR INJUSTICE TO BE LABELLED JUSTICE
- EITHER, NO ONE SHOULD HAVE CHILDREN OR, SHOULD SUFFER WITH THEM TRYING TO NOURISH AND EDUCATE THEM
- DON'T JUDGE ANYONE BEFORE HEARING BOTH SIDES
- YOU WILL DO MUCH GREATER GOOD IF YOU STOP THE LACK OF EDUCATION OF THE SOUL, THAN THE DISEASE OF THE BODY
- OF ALL PLEASURES, PRAISE IS THE SWEETEST
- IT IS RIGHT TO GIVE IN TO ONE WHO SPEAKS RIGHT
- WEALTH EXISTS TO SERVE THE BODY AND THE BODY TO SERVE THE SOUL
- THE COWARD HAS BEEN FREED FROM SHAME
- TO BE RULED BY PLEASURES IS DEBAUCHERY
- ALL EVIL IN ALL MEN HAS THEIR ROOT IN IGNORANCE
- THE SOUL IS FREED FROM THE BODY LIKE IT IS FREED FROM A BOND
- IT IS NOT ACCORDING TO THE DIVINE LAW TO ABUSE YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER
- LET NOONE IGNORANT OF GEOMETRY ENTER
- BOTH IN WAR AND IN COURT AND EVERYWHERE WE HAVE TO ACT, AS STATE AND COUNTRY DICTATE
- FOR THE ACQUISITION OF ESTATE, ALL THE WARS BETWEEN US HAPPEN
- EVERY KNOWLEDGE SEPARATED FROM VIRTUE IS LIKE FRAUD
- ALL LOVES ARE NOT BEAUTIFUL, NOR WORTH PRAISED, EXCEPT THAT WHICH LEADS TO GOOD
- HE WHO DOES NOT WRONG OTHERS HAS NO NEED OF ANY LAW
- MAN, IF TRAINED CORRECTLY, BECOMES THE MOST GENTLE AND TAME CREATURE, BUT IF HE DOES NOT RECEIVE SUFFICIENT AND APPROPRIATE EDUCATION, HE BECOMES THE WILDEST ANIMAL IN NATURE
- EDUCATION TAMES ALL
- ONE MAN WITH RIGHT JUDGMENT IS BETTER THAN A THOUSAND RECKLESS
- TO DEFEAT ONE'S SELF, THAT IS TO DOMINATE OVER ONE'S WEAKNESSES, IS THE FIRST AND BEST OF ALL VICTORIES
- THAT ONLY ONE SHOULD CONSIDER, WHICH OF THE TWO RIGHTEOUS OR, UNJUST DEEDS HE DOES, DEEDS OF A GOOD PERSON OR BAD
- IT IS NOT RIGHT NOT TO GIVE IN TO ONE WHO SPEAKS RIGHT
- EDUCATION FOR MORTALS IS A VERY GOOD ACQUISITION
- IF IT WAS NECESSARY TO WRONG OTHERS OR, TO BE WRONGED, I WOULD PREFER TO BE WRONGED THAN WRONG OTHERS
- WE SHOULD NOT RETURN INJUSTICE, NOR DO HARM, WHATEVER THE HARM THAT WAS DONE TO US
- YOU SHOULD NOT ONLY ACQUIRE THE GOODS, BUT ALSO USE THEM, BECAUSE NO BENEFIT ARISES FROM ACQUISITION ONLY
- IF MEN'S IDEAS OF THE GODS CHANGE, THE LAWS MUST CHANGE AS WELL
- JUSTICE BY ITS NATURE BENEFITS THE ONE WHO HAS IT
- IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BECOME FRIENDS THOSE WHO WRONG WITH THOSE WHO DO NOT WRONG OTHERS
- IF KINGS DO NOT PHILOSOPHIZE, WE CANNOT BECOME FREE FROM EVIL
- LET EACH OF US SHOW HIS RESPECT TO HIS ELDER THROUGH DEEDS AND WORDS
- EVERY UNJUST PERSON IS NOT BECAUSE HE WANTS TO
- FOR THE REPUBLIC THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN PASSED LAWS
- LAWS ARE THE SOUL OF THE REPUBLIC
- WISDOM IS THE BEST OF ALL
- EXCESSIVE FREEDOM TURNS INTO EXCESSIVE SLAVERY FOR BOTH THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE REPUBLIC
- WE MUST CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH
- IT IS A SHAME FOR ONE NOT TO ADMIT THAT WISDOM AND SCIENCE ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF HUMAN THINGS
- ALL THE IMPORTANT IN THE WORLD ARE NOT IMMUTABLE
- NO ONE SHOULD BLAME THE OTHER
- IT IS EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO DO EVIL THAN GOOD
- IF WE ARE RIGHTEOUS WE WILL NOT BE PUNISHED BY THE GODS
- WHEN WE DIE, THE WORDS ABOUT US WILL STILL BE SPOKEN
- ALL THE GOLD UNDER AND ABOVE THE EARTH IS NOT WORTH AS MUCH AS VIRTUE
- I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT GOD IS PROTECTING ME
- THE LORDS WHEN THEY LEGISLATE, SOMETIMES THEY LEGISLATE CORRECTLY, SOMETIMES NOT
- EVERYONE ADMITS THAT PRUDENCE IS TO BE MASTER OF ONE'S PLEASURES AND DESIRES
- IT IS VERY PLEASANT IN LIFE THAT EACH ONE BE BUSY WITH HIS OWN AFFAIRS
- IT IS NOT NATURAL FOR THE WISE TO VISIT THE HOUSES OF THE RICH
- WE SHOULD NOT CONCERN OURSELVES WITH WHAT THE MANY WILL SAY ABOUT US, BUT WHAT HE WILL SAY WHO KNOWS WELL WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS UNJUST
- ENVY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GODS
- FARMING PROVIDES THE REPUBLIC'S MOST BRAVE AND COURAGEOUS CITIZENS
- IN NO WAY SHOULD WE WRONG OTHERS
- FORCED KNOWLEDGE IS NOT RETAINED BY MEMORY
- NOT ONLY CAN THE OLD MAN BECOME TWICE A CHILD, BUT ALSO THE DRUNK
- NO LITIGATION IS MALICIOUS IF IT IS DONE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW
- MANY STATES LIKE SHIPS THAT SINK WERE DESTROYED AND LOST AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE DESTROYED BECAUSE OF THE VICIOUSNESS OF GOVERNORS AND SAILORS
- FEAR IS NOT CAUSED BY WHAT HAPPENED NOR THE EVIL PRESENT, BUT WHAT WE WAIT FOR
- IF WE ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, WE WILL PROSPER
- SCIENCE IS CREATOR OF BLISS
- THERE IS NO GREATER SHAME ON A MAN WHO BRAGGS, THAN TO ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE HONORED, NOT FOR HIS OWN ACHIEVEMENTS, BUT FOR THE GLORY OF HIS ANCESTORS
- IT'S GOOD TO SAY THE GOOD THINGS TWO AND THREE TIMES
- HE WHO WANTS TO BE REALLY RICH, INSTEAD OF MAKING HIS PROPERTY GREATER, LET HIM MAKE HIS GREED SMALLER
- IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR TWO BAD MEN TO BE FRIENDS, NOR FOR A GOOD ONE NOT TO HAVE A GOOD FRIEND
- AS WOLVES LOVE SHEEP, SO MALE LOVERS LOVE THEIR FEMALE LOVERS
- EVERY MAN, WHEN HE COMES INTO CONTACT WITH LOVE, BECOMES A POET
- MEN CALLED LOVE WINGED, BECAUSE IT HAS WINGS. HOWEVER, THE GODS NAMED HIM LIKE THIS BECAUSE HE HAS THE POWER TO GIVE WINGS
- LOVE IS A MIXTURE OF HONEY AND BILE. SOMETIMES SWEET, SOMETIMES BITTER
- THE GOAL OF LIFE IS NOT TO BE LONG, BUT TO BE LIVED WELL
- THE FIRST OF ALL GOODS IS HEALTH, THE SECOND IS MENTAL BEAUTY AND THE THIRD IS TO GET RICH WITHOUT DECEPTION
- GOD CARES FOR US BECAUSE WE HUMANS ARE HIS CREATURES TOO
- LET US NOT GET ANGRY AND LET US KEEP IN MIND THAT GOD SEES US EVERYWHERE
- LET PEOPLE OF EVERY CLASS, WHETHER NOVICES OR NOT, TRIUMPHING OR NOT, DO THEIR DUTY AND BE SUFFICIENT WITH IT
- THE VERY GOOD AND THE VERY BAD ARE FEW. THE MOST ARE THE AVERAGES, THOSE WHO ARE A LITTLE BAD AND A LITTLE GOOD
- THE REPUBLIC IS FOOD OF THE PEOPLE, GOOD FOR THE GOOD, BAD FOR THE BAD
- WHAT OPINION COULD BE MORE OFFENSIVE THAN THINKING THAT SOMEONE PREFERS MONEY TO FRIENDS
- KINDNESS HAS A GREATER EXTENT THAN JUSTICE, YET WE ARE OBLIGED TO OBSERVE THE COMMANDS OF THE LAW AND THE RULES OF JUSTICE IN OUR DEALINGS WITH PEOPLE
- FEELINGS OF KINDNESS AND CHARITY SPRING FROM THE BREASTS OF THE GOOD, AS FROM A RICH FOUNTAIN
- OLIGARCY: A FORM OF GOVERNMENT, BASED ON THE VALUE OF PROPERTY, AND IN WHICH THE RICH HAS ALL THE POWER AND THE POOR HAS NONE
- A GOVERNOR OR, COMMANDER WHO IS DRUNK, OVERTHROWS EVERYTHING, SHIPS, CHARIOT, CAMP, OR WHATEVER HE COMMANDS
- THE CHILD IS THE MOST DIFFICULT TO HANDLE OF ALL THE BEASTS, BECAUSE UNTIL HIS MENTAL POWERS ARE SUFFICIENTLY DEVELOPED, IT BECOMES MORE WILD, MORE AGGRESSIVE AND MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE BEASTS. THAT'S WHY IT HAS TO BE TAMED
- USUALLY, EVERYONE'S CHARACTER IS FORMED ACCORDING TO THEIR DESIRES AND MENTAL MOODS
- HE WHO KNOWS HIS BODY KNOWS THOSE BELONGING TO IT, BUT NOT HIS OWN SELF
- WE SHOULD NOT CONSIDER WHO SAID SOMETHING BUT IF WHAT IS SAID IS TRUE OR FALSE
- WISDOM AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS KNOWING WHAT ONE KNOWS AND WHAT HE DOESN'T KNOW
- IT IS DIFFICULT AND VERY PRAISEFUL TO LIVE RIGHTEOUSLY WHEN ONE HAS THE POWER TO WRONG OTHERS
- THE CREATOR AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSE IS DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE TO DISCOVER, AND IF DISCOVERED, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DISCLOSE THAT TO OTHERS
- YOU MUST BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO ACCUSE OR PRAISE A PERSON, LEST YOU MAKE A MISTAKE
- GIRLS SHOULD EXERCISE IN EVERYTHING JUST LIKE BOYS. AND I HAVE NO HESITATION ABOUT RIDING OR GYMNASTICS, BECAUSE IT IS THOUGHT THAT THOSE ARE FOR MEN AND NOT FOR WOMEN
- POLITICS, WHICH IS A TRUE ART, SHOULD NOT CONSIDER THE INDIVIDUAL INTEREST, BUT THE COMMON INTEREST, BECAUSE THE COMMON INTEREST UNITES, WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL DIVIDES THE CITIES.
- TO BOTH THE CITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL IT IS MORE IN THEIR INTEREST TO ESTABLISH THE COMMON INTEREST RATHER THAN THE INDIVIDUAL ONE
- LYING IS HATED BY BOTH GODS AND MEN
- MUSIC IS A MORAL LAW. IT ANIMATES THE UNIVERSE, ELEVATES THE IMAGINATION, DESTROYES BAD MOOD, GIVES JOY TO LIFE. IT IS THE ESSENCE OF ORDER AND LEADS TO WHAT IS GOOD, FAIR AND BEAUTIFUL
- THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN GOOD LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC, BECAUSE THEN BOTH THE POOR AND THE RICH ARE EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW, AND WHEN THE POOR IS RIGHT, HE OVERCOMES THE RICH
- IT IS NECESSARY FOR PEOPLE TO SET LAWS AND LIVE ACCORDING TO THEM. OTHERWISE, HUMANS ARE NO DIFFERENT FROM WILD BEASTS
- THE LAW HAS AS ITS MISSION TO LEAD PEOPLE TO THE RIGHT PATH, AS THE LINES IN SCRIPTURE LEAD LITTLE CHILDREN IN WRITING
- FRIENDS' TRUE CHARACTER IS REVEALED IN QUARREL AND WINE
- IT'S NOT STRANGE THAT GOOD CHILDREN COME FROM BAD PARENTS, AND BAD CHILDREN FROM GOOD PARENTS
- WHEN THE ELDERS ARE SHAMELESS, THE YOUNG ARE EVEN MORE SHAMELESS
- THE ENVIOUS SLANDERS OTHERS AND POISONS COMPETITORS WITH UNFAIR ACCUSATIONS
- THE LOVE OF MONEY LEADS MAN TO HAVING NO TIME FOR ANYTHING ELSE EXCEPT THE ACCUMULATION OF PROPERTY, TO WHICH HIS ENTIRE SOUL IS DEVOTED, AND OUTSIDE OF DAILY PROFIT, NO OTHER THOUGHT OCCUPIES HIS MIND