Quotes By Plato

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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.

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

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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

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

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

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.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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

It is right to give every man his due.