Quotes of Plato - somelinesforyou

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ 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

“ 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

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her. ”

- Plato

“ Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ”

- Plato

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

- Plato

“ Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones. ”

- Plato

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

- Plato

“ Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. ”

- Plato

“ The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. ”

- Plato

“ False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. ”

- Plato

“ Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. ”

- Plato

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

- Plato

“ If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. ”

- Plato

“ You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. ”

- Plato

“ Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. ”

- Plato

“ Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. ”

- Plato

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

- Plato

“ Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. ”

- Plato

“ We are twice armed if we fight with faith. ”

- Plato

“ The beginning is the most important part of the work. ”

- Plato

“ He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. ”

- Plato

“ Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom. ”

- Plato

“ He was a wise man who invented beer. ”

- Plato

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

- Plato

“ There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. ”

- Plato

“ Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ”

- Plato

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

- Plato

“ The wisest have the most authority. ”

- Plato
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