Plato Quotes

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

Politics, End, Governed

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

Men, Wise, Speak

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Love, Everyone, Touch

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, Life, Mind

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

Good, Bad, Find

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

Life, Men, Real

Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato

Love, Serious, Mental

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

Person, Play, Year

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

Democracy, Liberty, Tyranny

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.
Plato

Men, Wise, Hero

He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato

Wise, Beer, Invented

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

Heart, Find, Wish

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.
Plato

Help, Person, Die

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato

Wisdom, Good, Knowledge

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

Give, Enough, Earth

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

Inspirational, Thinking, Soul

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

Music, Education, Soul

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

Strength, Good, Give

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato

Ignorance, Evil, Stem

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

Love, Good, Wise

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

Himself, Conquer, Noblest

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

Government, Equality, Democracy

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

Parenting, Children, Parents

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

Knowledge, Human, Desire

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, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato

Power, End, Political

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 427 BC

Died: 347 BC

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