Quotes by Plato (Page 4 of 4)

The wisest have the most authority.

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

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

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Science is nothing but perception.

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.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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

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

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

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

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

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

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

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

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.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The good is the beautiful.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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

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

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.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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

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.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Philosophy begins in wonder.