Philosopher Quotes

743 quotes in this collection

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

-- Plato

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

-- Plato

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

-- Plato

"Pleasure is the bait of sin."

-- Plato

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

-- Plato

"No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

-- Plato

"You should not honor men more than truth."

-- Plato

"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age."

-- Plato

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood."

-- Plato

"It is right to give every man his due."

-- Plato

"Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."

-- Plato

"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state."

-- Plato

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

-- Plato

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

-- Plato

"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."

-- Plato

"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."

-- Plato

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

-- Plato

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

-- Plato

"There is truth in wine and children."

-- Plato

"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

-- Plato

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

-- Plato

"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

-- Plato

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds."

-- Plato

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."

-- Plato
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