Quotes By Plato

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.

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.

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

Science is nothing but perception.

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.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

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.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

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