Plato Quotes (111 quotations)
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1. ...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded... - Plato
2. A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. - Plato
3. 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. - Plato
4. Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. - Plato
5. As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers. - Plato
6. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. - Plato
7. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
8. Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. - Plato
9. Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. - Plato
10. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato
11. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato
12. But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. - Plato
13. Courage is a kind of salvation. - Plato
14. Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato
15. Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. - Plato
16. Death is not the worst than can happen to men. - Plato
17. Death is not the worst that can happen to men. - Plato
18. Democracy passes into despotism. - Plato
19. Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. - Plato
20. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. - Plato
21. 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
22. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Plato
23. For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind. - Plato
24. Friends have all things in common. - Plato
25. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato
2. A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. - Plato
3. 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. - Plato
4. Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. - Plato
5. As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers. - Plato
6. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. - Plato
7. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
8. Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. - Plato
9. Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. - Plato
10. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato
11. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato
12. But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. - Plato
13. Courage is a kind of salvation. - Plato
14. Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato
15. Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. - Plato
16. Death is not the worst than can happen to men. - Plato
17. Death is not the worst that can happen to men. - Plato
18. Democracy passes into despotism. - Plato
19. Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. - Plato
20. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. - Plato
21. 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
22. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Plato
23. For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind. - Plato
24. Friends have all things in common. - Plato
25. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato
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