Plato Quotes to Freshen Up your Philosophy on Life

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

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.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

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

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.