Plato Quotes to Freshen Up your Philosophy on Life

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Life must be lived as play.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Every soul is immortal—for whatever is in perpetual motion is immortal. Every man’s soul has by the law of his birth been a spectator of eternal truth, or it would never have passed into this our mortal frame, yet still, it is no easy matter for all to be reminded of their past by their present existence.