176 Quotations by Plato
- 21. Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery ...
- 22. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind ...
- 23. Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
- 24. Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinc ...
- 25. Even the gods love jokes.
- 26. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
- 27. Excellent things are rare.
- 28. Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
- 29. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- 30. For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who ha ...
- 31. For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the ple ...
- 32. For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honours, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which shou ...
- 33. For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since sty ...
- 34. For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causin ...
- 35. Friends have all things in common.
- 36. From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, ...
- 37. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun ...
- 38. grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in ...
- 39. He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
- 40. He was a wise man who invented beer.
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