Plato Quotes

286 Plato quotes by 150 unique authors

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. — Plato
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. — 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… — Plato
Self conquest is the greatest of victories. — 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
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. — Plato
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. — Plato
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them. — Plato
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. — 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
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings… — Plato
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. — Plato
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the… — Plato
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still… — Plato
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike… — Plato
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? — Plato
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens,… — Plato
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in… — Plato
Science is nothing but perception. — Plato
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all… — Plato
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest,… — Plato
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. — Plato
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. — Plato
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. — Plato

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