158 Quotes By Plato


He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato on age

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Plato on alone

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato on art

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato on art

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato on best

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.
Plato on best

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato on business

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

Courage is a kind of salvation.
Plato on courage

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato on courage

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato on death

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato on death

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

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato on death

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato on education

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

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato on education

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

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