Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Plato quotes, Plato sayings, and Plato proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
He who is of a 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
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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.Plato
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Can we devise one of those lies—the kind which crop up as the occasion demands, which we were talking about not so long ago—so that with a single noble lie we can indoctrinate the rulers themselves, preferably, but at least the rest of the community?Plato
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He who is of a 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
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato
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Be kind, for every man you meet is fighting a hard battle.Plato
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.Plato
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.Plato
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Why, a dog, when he sees a stranger, is angry; when an acquaintance he welcomes him, although the one has never done him any harm, not the other any good. Plato
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Of all the animals, the boy is most unmanageable.Plato
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.Plato
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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.Plato
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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of agePlato
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It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world.Plato
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Rhetoric is the art of persuading the minds of men. Plato
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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophersPlato
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.Plato
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Courage is knowing what not to fear. Plato
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.Plato
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Hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.Plato
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.Plato
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.Plato
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.Plato
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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.Plato
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Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.Plato
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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong . And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.Plato
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.Plato
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.Plato