Top 983 Quotes & Sayings by Plato - Page 3

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

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 as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

We become what we contemplate.

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!