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Quotes of Plato

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

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an

accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing,

but all of us have many wants.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and

however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty

prince.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for

virtue.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease,

when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts,

and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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

the soul.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another

.

Apply

yourself

both

now

and

in

the

next

life.

Without

effort,

you

cannot

be

prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without

cultivation.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser

.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another

.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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

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

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is knowing what not to fear

.

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

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Democracy passes into despotism.

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

dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of

tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Entire

ignorance

is

not

so

terrible

or

extreme

an

evil,

and is

far

from

being

the

greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill

bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who

wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover

, everyone becomes a poet.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction,

whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Excess

of

liberty,

whether

it lies

in

state

or

individuals,

seems

only

to

pass

into

excess of slavery.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole

state;

since

styles

of

music

are

never

disturbed

without

affecting

the

most

important political institutions.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will

find a way around the laws.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

He was a wise man who invented beer

.

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

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master

.

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

who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less

power

.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts

are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking

state?

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

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and

greater than every other earthly conflict.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by

accident; they came by work.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

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

of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad

training, are a much greater misfortune.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any

fear which they have of doing injustice.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards,

and draws it from the things of this world to the other

.

It is right to give every man his due.

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

hearts and souls of the citizens.

Justice

means

minding

one's

own

business

and

not

meddling

with

other

men's

concerns.

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

be the greatest good.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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

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

Life must be lived as play.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways,

legislate in all sorts of ways.

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

imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?