Plato Quotes to Freshen Up your Philosophy on Life

Democracy passes into despotism.

As one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good.

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

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

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

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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

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

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.

Philosophy is the highest music.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.