Quotes by Plato with men

Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 427 - 347

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  • Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
  • 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.
  • No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
  • 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.
  • No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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  • When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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  • Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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  • Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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  • Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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  • States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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  • The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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  • There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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  • 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.
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  • Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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  • Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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What are the most famous quotes from Plato?

The two most famous quotes from Plato are:

  • "When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."
  • "Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind."

When did Plato live?

Plato was born in 427 and died in the year 347.