Plato quotes
Greek author and philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
“When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.”
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
“They certainly give very strange names to diseases”
“Character is simply habit long continued.”
“Love is the pursuit of the whole.”
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — The Republic
“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”
“Light is the shadow of god.”
“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
“Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.”
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything”
“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.”
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
“Love is a serious mental disease.” — Phaedrus
“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”
“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.”
“I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.”
“Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.” — The Republic
“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”— The Republic
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”
“The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.” — Dialogues, Phaedo
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
“There is no such thing as a lover’s oath.”
“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.”
“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.” — The Republic
“The greatest penalty of evildoing – namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.” — Dialogues, Theatetus
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
“Man is a being in search of meaning.”
“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.” — The Symposium
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” — The Republic
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”
“No human thing is of serious importance.”
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”