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Plato Quotes about Life

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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.

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

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Life, Worth Living, Self Discovery

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

Life, Men, Study

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Funny, Life, Sarcastic

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Life, Death, Wisdom

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Inspirational, Life, Plato

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 a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Life, Education, Teaching

Plato, Francis Bacon, Ignatius Donnelly, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, William Scott-Elliot (2016). “THE ATLANTIS COLLECTION - 6 Books About The Mythical Lost World: Plato’s Original Myth + The Lost Continent + The Story of Atlantis + The Antedeluvian World + New Atlantis: The Myth & The Theories”, p.114, e-artnow

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Life, Plato, Philosophical

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Life, Philosophical, Thinking

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

Life, Mean, Way

Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.1769, Catholic Way Publishing

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Life, Wise, Wisdom

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Life, Philosophy, Feelings

Plato, Robert Gregg Bury (1921). “Plato”

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

Life, Sacrifice, Men

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Life, Lying, Mean

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Inspirational, Life, Lambs

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1666, Delphi Classics

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

Life, Running, Men

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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