Plato's Quotes

Plato's Quotes 235

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

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

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind...

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the...

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat which is the combat of...

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their...

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet...

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

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

Better a little which is well done than a great deal imperfectly.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Twice and thrice over as they say good is it to repeat and review what is...

The good is the beautiful.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods and of every good to man.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to...

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege...

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort you cannot be...

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