Famous Quotes by Plato
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"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."
-Plato
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly." -Plato
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
-Plato
"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
-Plato
"Every man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
-Plato
"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
-Plato
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people wil find a way around the laws."
-Plato
"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."
-Plato
"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."
-Plato
"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
-Plato
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
-Plato
"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals."
-Plato
"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice."
-Plato
"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."
-Plato
"Knowledge is true opinion."
-Plato
"Love is a serious mental disease."
-Plato
"Man - a being in search of meaning."
-Plato
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
-Plato
"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
-Plato
"One of the penalties for refusing in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
-Plato
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
-Plato
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
-Plato
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
-Plato
"Science is nothing but perception."
-Plato
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
-Plato
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
-Plato
"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
-Plato
"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine."
-Plato
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
-Plato
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
-Plato
"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."
-Plato
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in government, is to liver under the government of worse men."
-Plato
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
-Plato
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
-Plato
"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."
-Plato
"There is no such thing as a lovers' oath."
-Plato
"Thinking: the talking of the soul within itself."
-Plato
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
-Plato
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the read tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-Plato
"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."
-Plato
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
-Plato
