Plato Quotes to Freshen Up your Philosophy on Life

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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

Even the gods love jokes.

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

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

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

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.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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