Platão

Frases de Platão

• “Where there is no equality, friendship does not last, for true union is born of harmony between souls seeking the same good.”

• “Liberty is to be master of one's own life, not a slave to one's own unruly desires and passions.”

• “Trying to be happy without being virtuous is like trying to walk without feet; virtue is the foundation of all real joy.”

• “Time is the moving image of eternity, a finite reflection that allows us to contemplate the infinite within the cosmos.”

• “Love is the quest for lost wholeness and the desire for beauty that brings us closer to divine truths.”

• “The soul is a prisoner of the body only as long as it ignores that true light resides in the world of ideas.”

• “Living well is not just existing, but directing every action toward the Supreme Good and the harmony of the soul.”

• “The first and greatest victory is to conquer oneself; to be conquered by oneself is of all things most shameful.”

• “Philosophy begins in wonder, in the shock between the ignorance we perceive and the truth we desire to reach.”

• “The measure of a man is what he does with the power granted to him by the city or by fate.”

• “One should not honor a man more than the truth.”

• “Where there is love for what you do, work becomes a pleasure.”

• “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

• “Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”

• “Music is the medicine of the soul for the ills of the body.”

• “He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”

• “Many learn only to know, others to be known.”

• “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

• “Where there is no law, there is no freedom.”

• “Touch is the sense that brings us closest to material reality.”

• “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.”

• “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

• “The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.”

• “For cities to find rest from their evils, philosophers must become kings or kings must become philosophers.”

• “All learning is but recollection.”

• “We should tell the young that happiness does not consist in pleasure, but in virtue.”

• “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

• “Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.”

• “The body is the prison of the soul.”

• “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”

• “Love is a force that drives us to seek beauty and truth, elevating the soul from the sensible world to the world of ideas.”