Plato Quotes

‘The beginning is the most important part of the work.’ – Plato

‘Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.’ – Plato

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

‘Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.’ – 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

‘Love is a serious mental disease.’ – Plato

‘The beginning is the most important part of the work.’ – Plato

‘Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.’ – Plato

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

‘Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.’ – 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

‘Love is a serious mental disease.’ – Plato

‘The beginning is the most important part of the work.’ – Plato

‘Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.’ – Plato

‘At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.’ – Plato

‘The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.’ – Plato

‘Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.’ – Plato

‘The greatest wealth is to live content with little.’ – Plato

‘Courage is knowing what not to fear.’ – Plato

‘For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.’ – Plato

‘Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.’ – Plato

‘Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.’ – Plato

‘We are twice armed if we fight with faith.’ – Plato

‘People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.’ – Plato

‘The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.’ – Plato

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

‘Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.’ – Plato