Quotes By Plato

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

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

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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.

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.