Plato Quotes

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a ...

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way...

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evil...

To be is to do.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not follo...

You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become king...

Philosophy is the highest music.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styl...

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then ...

good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and th...

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opp...

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

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

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Excellent things are rare.

Ideas are the source of all things

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

All is flux, nothing stays still

There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in ...

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

It is right to give every man his due.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature...

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, h...

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself to be conquered by yourself is of all things m...

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and phys...

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Time is the moving image of eternity.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

I know that I know nothing

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and ...

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will ...

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplic...

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood...

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the cour...

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Science is nothing but perception.

Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but ...

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Light is the shadow of god

Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end,came out again at the beginnin...

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiratio...

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might ...

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest goo...

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the...

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows fro...

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a...

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to...

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and...

You should not honor men more than truth.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance...

All learning has an emotional base.

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who hav...