Quotes By Plato

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Your silence gives consent.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Life must be lived as play.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

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.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.