Quotes By Plato

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Your silence gives consent.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Life must be lived as play.

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

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

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.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

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

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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

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

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

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

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.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.