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Plato Quotes - Page 2

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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Fighting, Enjoy Life, Battle

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Death, Children, Men

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

Wise, Honey, Herbs

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Wisdom, Thinking, Talking

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Being Happy, Plato, Greatest Wealth

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

Truth, Attitude, Lying

Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Leadership, Plato, Power

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato, War, Government

Life should be lived as play.

Play, Should

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

War, Order, Tyrants

Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.260, Anchor

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

Athlete, Men, Savages

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

Ignorance, Roots, Causes

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Song, Philosophical, Heart

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

Integrity, Men, Hearing

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

Beautiful, Stars, Caves

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

Lying, Thinking, Shadow

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato, Desire, Three

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Perfect, Justice, Understanding

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Self Esteem, Lying, Pride

Plato (1984). “Laws”

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato, Pleasure Love, Evil

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

Mistake, Failing, Made

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

Spring, Helping Others, Helping

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Success, Dream, Long

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.

Inspirational, Life, People

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

Book, Wealth And Happiness, Wealth Of Knowledge

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