Plato’s Inspiring Quotes on Life
Life must be lived as play. – Plato
The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. – Plato
I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing. – Plato
Courage is knowing what not to fear. – Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. – Plato
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. – Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato
Love is a serious mental illness. – Plato
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. – Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. – Plato
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. – Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. – Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
Plato’s Inspiring Quotes on Life part 2
Courage is knowing what not to fear. – Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. – Plato
Love is a serious mental illness. – Plato
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. – Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. – Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. – Plato
The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. – Plato
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. – Plato
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. – Plato
The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers. – Plato
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. – Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. – Plato
Ideas are the source of all things. – Plato
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. – Plato
The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. – Plato
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
Necessity, who is the mother of invention. – Plato
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods. – Plato
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. – Plato
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. – Plato
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. – Plato
