Quotes by Plato

Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 427 - 347

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagGreece

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  • Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
    Phaedrus
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  • Success tempts many to their ruin.
    Phaedrus
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  • The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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  • The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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  • The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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  • The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
    Phaedrus
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  • The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
    Phaedrus
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  • The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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  • The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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  • The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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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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  • The wisest have the most authority.
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  • There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
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  • There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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  • There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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  • These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
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  • They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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  • Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
    Phaedrus
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  • Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
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  • Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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