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Plato Quotes About Wisdom

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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

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.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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

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

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato Quotes About Life

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.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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

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

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.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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

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

More Quotes by Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

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

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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

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

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

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

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

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.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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.

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

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

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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

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