Plato Quotes
Philosopher of ancient Greece Plato founded the Academy, and is the author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence in Western thought.
50. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
49. “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.”
48. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
47. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
46. “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.”
45. “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
44. “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
43. “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
42. “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
41. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
40. “Love is a serious mental disease.”
39. “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
38. “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
37. “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
36. “There is truth in wine and children”
35. “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
34. “I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
33. “The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings”
32. “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
31. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
30. “Those who tell the stories rule society.”
29. “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
28. “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
27. “There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
26. “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
25. “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
24. “How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”
23. “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
22. “You should not honor men more than truth.”
21. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
20. “Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
19. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
18. “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
17. “Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.”
16. “Character is simply habit long continued.”
15. ““The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
14. “People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
13. “Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
12. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
11. “Love is the pursuit of the whole.”
10. “A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”
9. “A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
8. “No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
7. “An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
6. “Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
5. “Writing is the geometry of the soul.”
4. “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
3. “Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”
2. “Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”
1. “Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”
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