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Biography : Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Plato - Quotes

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

love

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

wisdom

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato

love

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato

Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato - Phaedo /

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato

philosophy

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

There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato

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

wisdom

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

courage

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato

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

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

Courage is a kind of salvation.
Plato

courage

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Plato

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

truth

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato

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

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

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

soul

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Plato

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Plato

music

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato

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

life

Plato - Quotes

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