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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

Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus /

The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
Plato - Republic /

Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.
Plato - Symposium /

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato /

We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.
Plato - Phaedrus /

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
Plato - Symposium /

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato - Phaedo

Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?
Plato - Phaedrus /

Until kings are philosophers or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill.
Plato - Republic /

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth comes from virtue.
Plato - Apology of Socrates /

Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato

The good is the beautiful.
Plato

Science is nothing but perception.
Plato

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato

death

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Plato

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato

love

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato

wisdom

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

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

Life must be lived as play.
Plato

life

Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato

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

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato

youth

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Plato

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Plato

Plato - Quotes

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