Plato quotes

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

— Plato

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. ”

— Plato

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”

— Plato

“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”

— Plato

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”

— Plato

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

— Plato

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

— Plato

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

— Plato

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

— Plato

“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”

— Plato

“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”

— Plato

“A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.”

— Plato

“Your silence gives consent.”

— Plato

“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”

— Plato

“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”

— Plato

“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

— Plato

“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”

— Plato

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”

— Plato

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

— Plato

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

— Plato

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ”

— Plato

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

— Plato

“There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.”

— Plato

“Philosophy begins in wonder.”

— Plato

“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.”

— Plato

“The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. ”

— Plato

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

— Plato

“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”

— Plato

“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”

— Plato

“The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.”

— Plato