Quotes By Plato

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

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.