Plato's Quotes

Plato's Quotes 235

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but...

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till...

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

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of...

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers...

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an...

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Love is a serious mental disease.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

It is right to give every man his due.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it...

I would fain grow old learning many things.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being...

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared...

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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