Plato Quotes by Plato

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

— Plato

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

— Plato

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

— Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

— Plato

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

— Plato

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

— Plato

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

— Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

— Plato

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

— Plato

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

— Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. --Plato

— Plato

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

— Plato

“As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.”

— Plato

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

— Plato

“When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over.”

— Plato

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

— Plato

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming,…

— Plato

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable…

— Plato

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely…

— Plato

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these…

— Plato

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

— Plato

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

— Plato

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

— Plato

“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato)”

— Plato

For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to…

— Plato

“We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what…

— Plato

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and…

— Plato

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly…

— Plato

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason,…

— Plato

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When…

— Plato

Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ...…

— Plato

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know…

— Plato

“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it…

— Plato

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a…

— Plato

In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles?…

— 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

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness…

— Plato

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,…

— Plato

“Und nicht wahr, wenn man ihn zwänge, in das Licht selbst zu sehen, so würde er Schmerzen an den Augen haben, davonlaufen…

— Plato

Love is a serious mental illness.

— Plato