Quotes by Plato

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

Plato on conflict   

"The first and the best victory is to conquer self."

Plato on control   

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

Plato on crime and criminals   

"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 penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. "

Plato on uncategorised
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"That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen. "

Plato on uncategorised   

""There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands". "

Plato on   

"only the dead have seen the end of war plato 347 b c"

Plato on dead   

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

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"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

Plato on astronomy quotes