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