Plato Quotes - Page 6

Greek - Philosopher 427 BC - 347 BC

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. - Plato

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. Plato

Speed, Too Much, Little, Suffer, Haste

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? Plato

Death, Things, Last, Up, All Things

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. Plato

Life, Great, Conflict, You, Than, Part

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. Plato

Lovers, Oath, Thing

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. Plato

Said, May, Benefit, Often, Author

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. Plato

Good, Truth, Man, Beginning, Truth Is

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. Plato

Wise, Great, Understand, Things, Which

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. Plato

Soul, Look, World, Everyone, Events

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. Plato

Man, Service, Gods, Intolerable

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. Plato

Love, Friend, Return, His, Who, Does

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato

Knowledge, Evil, Aim, Virtuous, Becomes

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. Plato

Men, Whatever, Magical, Seems, Produce

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. Plato

Music, Political, Important, New, Never

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato

Capable, Who, Reasoning, Known, Ever

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. Plato

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. Plato

Us, Out, Mankind, Many, State, Needs

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. Plato

Soul, World, Worst, Go, Injustice, Like

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