Plato Quotes And Sayings

All The Gold Which Is Under Or Upon The Earth Is Not Enough To Give In Exchange For Virtue.

The Blame Is His Who Chooses: God Is Blameless.

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.

Entire Ignorance Is Not So Terrible Or Extreme An Evil, And Is Far From Being The Greatest Of All; Too Much Cleverness And Too Much Learning, Accompanied With Ill Bringing-up, Are Far More Fatal.

For Good Nurture And Education Implant Good Constitutions.

The Punishment Which The Wise Suffer Who Refuse To Take Part In The Government, Is To Live Under The Government Of Worse Men.

He Was A Wise Man Who Invented Beer.

Cunning... Is But The Low Mimic Of Wisdom.

This City Is What It Is Because Our Citizens Are What They Are.

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.

All Men Are By Nature Equal, Made All Of The Same Earth By One Workman; And However We Deceive Ourselves, As Dear Unto God Is The Poor Peasant As The Mighty Prince.

Excess Generally Causes Reaction, And Produces A Change In The Opposite Direction, Whether It Be In The Seasons, Or In Individuals, Or In Governments.

Excess Generally Causes Reaction, And Produces A Change In The Opposite Direction, Whether It Be In The Seasons, Or In Individuals, Or In Governments.

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.

How Can You Prove Whether At This Moment We Are Sleeping, And All Our Thoughts Are A Dream; Or Whether We Are Awake, And Talking To One Another In The Waking State?

Whatever Deceives Men Seems To Produce A Magical Enchantment.

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.

A Good Decision Is Based On Knowledge And Not On Numbers.

There Are Three Classes Of Men; Lovers Of Wisdom, Lovers Of Honor, And Lovers Of Gain.

The Excessive Increase Of Anything Causes A Reaction In The Opposite Direction.

Life Must Be Lived As Play.

I Never Did Anything Worth Doing By Accident, Nor Did Any Of My Inventions Come By Accident; They Came By Work.

I Have Hardly Ever Known A Mathematician Who Was Capable Of Reasoning.

I Exhort You Also To Take Part In The Great Combat, Which Is The Combat Of Life, And Greater Than Every Other Earthly Conflict.

He Who Commits Injustice Is Ever Made More Wretched Than He Who Suffers It.

The Direction In Which Education Starts A Man Will Determine His Future In Life.

To Suffer The Penalty Of Too Much Haste, Which Is Too Little Speed.

The Measure Of A Man Is What He Does With Power.

The Highest Reach Of Injustice Is To Be Deemed Just When You Are Not.

People Are Like Dirt. They Can Either Nourish You And Help You Grow As A Person Or They Can Stunt Your Growth And Make You Wilt And Die.

No Evil Can Happen To A Good Man, Either In Life Or After Death.

The Good Is The Beautiful.

I Would Fain Grow Old Learning Many Things.

We Do Not Learn; And What We Call Learning Is Only A Process Of Recollection.

Justice Means Minding One's Own Business And Not Meddling With Other Men's Concerns.

Our Object In The Construction Of The State Is The Greatest Happiness Of The Whole, And Not That Of Any One Class.

Poets Utter Great And Wise Things Which They Do Not Themselves Understand.

There Is No Harm In Repeating A Good Thing.

Twice And Thrice Over, As They Say, Good Is It To Repeat And Review What Is Good.

Music Is The Movement Of Sound To Reach The Soul For The Education Of Its Virtue.

Virtue Is Relative To The Actions And Ages Of Each Of Us In All That We Do.

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.

Man Never Legislates, But Destinies And Accidents, Happening In All Sorts Of Ways, Legislate In All Sorts Of Ways.

To Be Sure I Must; And Therefore I May Assume That Your Silence Gives Consent.

It Is Clear To Everyone That Astronomy At All Events Compels The Soul To Look Upwards, And Draws It From The Things Of This World To The Other.

Man - A Being In Search Of Meaning.

When Men Speak Ill Of Thee, Live So As Nobody May Believe Them.

At The Touch Of Love Everyone Becomes A Poet.

Then Not Only Custom, But Also Nature Affirms That To Do Is More Disgraceful Than To Suffer Injustice, And That Justice Is Equality.

The Learning And Knowledge That We Have, Is, At The Most, But Little Compared With That Of Which We Are Ignorant.