Plato Quotes to Freshen Up your Philosophy on Life

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.