Plato

Wine fills the heart with courage.

— Plato

The good is the beautiful.

— Plato

Through obedience learn to command.

— Plato

“Habit is not unimportant.”

— Plato

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

— Plato

Even the gods love jokes.

— Plato

Love: a grave mental disease.

— Plato

Excellent things are rare.

— Plato

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

— Plato

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

— Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

— Plato

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

— Plato

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

— Plato

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

— Plato

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

— Plato

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

— Plato

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

— Plato

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and…

— Plato

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

— Plato

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

— Plato

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if…

— Plato

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . .…

— Plato

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars…

— Plato

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be…

— Plato

“they think that you bear old age more [e] easily not because of the way you live but because you’re wealthy, for…

— Plato

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close…

— Plato

“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion…

— Plato

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of…

— Plato

That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with…

— Plato

“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the…

— Plato

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing…

— Plato

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for…

— Plato

“Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same…

— Plato

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object…

— Plato

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no…

— Plato

“Not much time will be gained, O Athenians, in return for the evil name which you will get from the detractors of…

— Plato

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the…

— Plato

No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury…

— Plato

“Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician…

— Plato