Quotes By Plato

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.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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

Science is nothing but perception.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

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.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Philosophy begins in wonder.