Famous Quotes

Quotes by Plato

• If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
• Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
• Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
• It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
• Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
• Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
• Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
• Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
• Knowledge is true opinion.
• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
• Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
• Life must be lived as play.
• Love is a serious mental disease.
• Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
• 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.
• Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
• Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
• No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
• No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
• No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
• 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.
• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
• One man cannot practice many arts with success.
• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
• Only the dead have seen the end of war.
• Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
• Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
• Philosophy is the highest music.
• Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
• Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
• Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.