Famous Quotes / Plato
176 Quotations by Plato
- 101. Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
- 102. Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- 103. Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have es ...
- 104. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by yo ...
- 105. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
- 106. Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with ...
- 107. Philosophy is the highest music.
- 108. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
- 109. Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
- 110. Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- 111. Science is nothing but perception.
- 112. Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
- 113. States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
- 114. States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
- 115. Take charge of your life. You can do with it what you will.
- 116. That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a ...
- 117. The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- 118. The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time d ...
- 119. The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- 120. The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.