Plato Quotes to Freshen Up your Philosophy on Life

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

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.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Your silence gives consent.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.