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Plato Quotes about Evil

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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”

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Evil, Citizens, Poverty

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.112, Cosimo, Inc.

To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

Evil

Gorgias, 469b (translated byWDWoodhead).There is a similar remark in the Crito, 49b.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Plato, Men, Evil

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato, Knowledge, Evil

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Wise, Evil, Becoming

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”

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

Evil, Justice, Injustice

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

Men, Evil, Good Man

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”

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

Philosophical, Men, Evil

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

Evil, Wicked, Turns

Plato (2016). “Laws”, p.424, Xist Publishing

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Men, Two, Evil

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.74, Penguin

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

Wise, Ignorance, Evil

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.102, Penguin

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Evil, Soul, World

Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.114

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Inspirational, Men, Evil

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

Eye, Evil, Soul

Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.52, Booklassic

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

Evil, Dishonorable

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

Past, Men, Evil

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Should Have, Long, Evil

Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.299, GENERAL PRESS

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Evil, Noble, Return

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

Plato, Evil, Our Words

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

Law, Evil, Would Be

Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.269

When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

Evil, Desire, Good And Evil

Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.307, e-artnow

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

Mistake, Men, Evil

Plato, Richard Stanley Bluck (1955). “Phaedo: Translated, with Introd., Notes, and Appendices”

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Spiritual, Men, Evil

Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.72, First Avenue Editions

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Character, Men, 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”

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