Famous Quotes

Quotes by Plato

• The beginning is the most important part of the work.
• The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
• The good is the beautiful.
• The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
• The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
• 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.
• The measure of a man is what he does with power.
• The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
• The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
• 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.
• Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
• Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
• There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
• There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
• There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
• There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
• 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.
• 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.
• They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
• Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
• 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.
• To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
• To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
• Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
• Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.