Plato Quotes and Sayings with Pictures

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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.      

Plato

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.     

Plato

Do not train children to learning by force and 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.     

Plato

All learning has an emotional base.      

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.     

Plato

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.     

Plato

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

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.     

Plato

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

Plato

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.     

Plato

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

Plato

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.     

Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle

Plato

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.     

Plato

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.     

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.     

Plato

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.     

Plato

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.     

Plato

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.     

Plato

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

Plato

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

He who is of a 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.     

Plato

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Plato

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.     

Plato

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.     

Plato

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

Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.     

Plato

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.  

Plato

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

Plato

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.     

Plato

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

Plato

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

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

Plato

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.     

Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.     

Plato

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.     

Plato

Plato

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.

Plato

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it     

Plato

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.

Plato

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.     

Plato

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

Plato

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

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

Plato

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.     

Plato

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.     

Plato

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.     

Plato

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.     

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.     

Plato

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

Plato

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.     

Plato

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Plato

Do not train children to learn by force and 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.     

Plato

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

Plato

Democracy passes into despotism.     

Plato

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.     

Plato

Let each one of us leave every other kind of knowledge and seek and follow one thing only, if peradventure he may be able to learn and find some one who will make him able to learn and discern between good and evil, and so to choose always and everywhere the better life as he has opportunity.     

Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.     

Plato

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.      

Plato

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.     

Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

A grateful mind is a great mind, which eventually attracts to itself great things.

Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.     

Plato

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.

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

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.     

Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.     

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

Plato

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

Plato

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

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.     

Plato

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.     

Plato

Love is a grave mental disease.

Plato

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.     

Plato

The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable.     

Plato

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.     

Plato

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.     

Plato

Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.

Plato

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Plato

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.     

Plato

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.     

Plato

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.     

Plato

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.     

Plato

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

Plato

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.

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.     

Plato

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

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

Plato

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

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

Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.     

Plato

To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.     

Plato

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other’s sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

Plato

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.

Plato

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Plato

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato

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