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Plato [-427--347] Greek

Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.	Communication, Men	40
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.	Imagination, Life, Music	101
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.	Fear, Life, Men	103
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.		104
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.	Knowledge	105
He was a wise man who invented beer.		106
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.	Good, Knowledge	107
The measure of a man is what he does with power.	Power	108
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.	Education, Music	109
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.	Relationship	110
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.	Good	111
The beginning is the most important part of the work.	Work	112
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.	Knowledge	113
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.	Great	114
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.	Power	115
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.		116
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.		117
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.	Men	118
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.	Good, Nature	119
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.		120
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.		121
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.	Good	122
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.	Faith	123
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.	Food, Knowledge	124
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.		125
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.	Politics	126
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.	Inspirational	201
Courage is knowing what not to fear.	Courage, Fear	202
Courage is a kind of salvation.	Courage	203
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.	Great	204
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.	Great, Men	205
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.		206
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.	Anger	207
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.		208
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.	Age, Nature	209
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.	Parenting	210
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.	Medical	211
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.	Education	212
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.	Good	213
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.	Death, Fear, Good	214
Love is a serious mental disease.		215
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.	Good, Love	216
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.		217
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.	Best, Happiness, Men, Wisdom	218
Necessity... the mother of invention.		219
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.		220
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.	Legal	221
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.	Education	222
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.		223
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.	Great	224
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.		225
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.	Education, Nature	226
Philosophy begins in wonder.		301
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.		302
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.	Best	303
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.	Knowledge, Learning	304
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.	God	305
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.	Education, Graduation	306
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.	Government, Men	307
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.	Women	308
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.		309
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.	Wisdom	310
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.	Nature	311
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.		312
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.	Change	313
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.	Fear, War	314
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?		315
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.		316
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.	Learning	317
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.	Wisdom	318
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.		319
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.		320
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.		321
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.		322
Life must be lived as play.	Life	323
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.		324
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.	Education, Future	325
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.		326
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.		401
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.		402
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.	Learning	403
The good is the beautiful.		404
I would fain grow old learning many things.	Learning	405
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.	Death	406
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.	Business	407
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.	Happiness	408
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.		409
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.		410
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.		411
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.		412
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.		413
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.		414
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.		415
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.		416
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.	Equality	417
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.	Love	418
Man - a being in search of meaning.		419
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.	Knowledge, Learning	420
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.		421
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.		422
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.	Love	423
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?	Death	424
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.	Knowledge, Wisdom	425
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.		426
The wisest have the most authority.		501
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.		502
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.		503
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.		504
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.	Health	505
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.	History, Poetry	506
Democracy passes into despotism.	Government	507
It is right to give every man his due.	Legal	508
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.		509
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.	Equality, Government	510
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.		511
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.		512
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.		513
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.		514
Science is nothing but perception.	Science	515
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.		516
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.		517
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.		518
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.		519
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.		520
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.		521
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.		522
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.		523
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.	Knowledge	524
Knowledge is true opinion.	Knowledge	525
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.		526
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.		601
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.	Science, Wisdom	602
Philosophy is the highest music.		603
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.		604
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.		605
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.		606
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.		607
One man cannot practice many arts with success.		608
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.		609
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.		610
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.	Knowledge	611
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.		612
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.		613
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.		614
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.		615
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.		616
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.		617
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.		618
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.		619
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.		620

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