Quotes by Plato

Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 427 - 347

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagGreece

Quotes 21 till 40 of 98.

  • He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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  • He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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  • Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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  • I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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  • I have good hope that there is something after death.
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  • I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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  • I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
    Source: Phaedrus
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  • 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.
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  • In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
    Source: Phaedrus
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  • In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
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  • Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
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  • 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.
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  • Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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  • Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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  • Knowledge is true opinion.
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  • Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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  • Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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