Plato quotes

“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. ”

— Plato

“The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.”

— Plato

“No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.”

— Plato

“The wisest have the most authority.”

— Plato

“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”

— Plato

“The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.”

— Plato

“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.”

— Plato

“The good is the beautiful.”

— Plato

“I would fain grow old learning many things.”

— Plato

“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”

— Plato

“Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.”

— Plato

“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”

— Plato

“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.”

— Plato

“ This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are”

— Plato

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

— Plato

“It is right to give every man his due.”

— Plato

“They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.”

— Plato

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”

— Plato

“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good”

— Plato

“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ”

— Plato

“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”

— Plato

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”

— Plato

“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”

— Plato

“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.”

— Plato

“No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.”

— Plato

“To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.”

— Plato

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

— Plato

“When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. ”

— Plato

“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”

— Plato

“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”

— Plato