Plato Quotes

• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
• Only the dead have seen the end of war.
• The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
• Love is a serious mental disease.
• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
• I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
• If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
• Those who tell the stories rule society.
• The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
• Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
• The measure of a man is what he does with power.
• Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
• One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
• Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
• According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
• Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
• The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
• 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.
• 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.
• Courage is knowing what not to fear.
• When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
• 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?
• A house that has a library in it has a soul.
• The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
• An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
• No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
• Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
• Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
• The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
• The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
• There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
• You should not honor men more than truth.
• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
• Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.