Top 149 Quotes by Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.