Plato Quotes

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato

Mind, Thinking, Talking

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Plato

Legal, Life, Justice

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato

Silence, Shall, Assume

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

Great, Men, Nothing

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

Great, Wise, Understand

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato

Made, Injustice, Wretched

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato

Great, Learning, Ignorance

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato

Poverty, Community, Nor

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Plato

State, Needs, Wants

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

Life, Education, End

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato

Themselves, Content, Appear

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

Rather, Nation, Action

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato

Tyrant, Appears, Root

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Plato

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato

Study, Memory, Slavery

Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato

Philosophy, Wonder, Begins

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Plato

Life, Saying, Everybody

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

Happiness, Greatest, Whole

Your silence gives consent.
Plato

Silence, Consent, Gives

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato

Work, Worth, Nor

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato

Love, Great, Done

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

Power, Same, Wish

Man - a being in search of meaning.
Plato

Meaning, Search

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato

Good, Home, Lie

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Plato

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 427 BC

Died: 347 BC

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