Plato Quotes

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

Parenting, Children, Parents

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

Men, Business, Justice

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

Knowledge, Human, Desire

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

Knowledge, Food, Soul

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato

Good, May, Another

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato

Life, Good, Yourself

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato

Thoughts, Moment, Another

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato

Great, Live, Greatest

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato

Knowledge, Learning, Ignorance

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato

Life, Good, Death

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato

Knowledge, Learning, Ignorant

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato

Faith, Fight, Twice

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Plato

Lie, Stones, Builders

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato

Love, Beautiful, Educated

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato

Single, Moment, Else

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

Age, Nature, Happy

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato

Education, Nature, End

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato

Same, Less, Tax

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

Anger, Angry, Help

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Plato

Fitness, Life, Health

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

Yourself, Greatest, Victory

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

Knowledge, Ignorance, Opinion

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato

Men, Death, Happen

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

Courage, Fear, Knowing

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 427 BC

Died: 347 BC

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