Quotes from Plato

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nurture and education.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the remorse of his own conscience.

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.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Quotes from Plato part 2

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The wise man does not speak just to say something; he speaks when he has something to say.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Silence gives consent.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Opinions is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.