Top 149 Quotes by Plato

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

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

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

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

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.