Plato Quotes About Plato

Quotes about: Plato

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  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  Plato

  Plato, Desire, Three

• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Government

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

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  Wise, Wisdom, Witty
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  Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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  Music, Plato, Soul

• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Business

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

• Man is a being in search of meaning.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Vision

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

  Plato

  Plato, Work, Acceptance

• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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  Plato, Freedom, Men

• To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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  Love, Beautiful, Education

• The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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  Leadership, Plato, Power

• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

  Plato

  Witty, Plato, Cities

• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

• No human thing is of serious importance.

  Plato

  Plato, Worry, Anxiety

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.489, Xist Publishing

• No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

  Plato

  Plato, Hero, Speak

• A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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  Wise, Plato, Men

• Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

  Plato

  Education, Wisdom, Plato

• Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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  Plato, Philosophical, Ignorance

• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

• Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

  Plato

  Plato, Democracies Have, Political

• Love is a serious mental disease.

  Plato

  Love, Plato, Romance

• The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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  Being Happy, Plato, Greatest Wealth

• Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

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

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Inspiration

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.126, Cosimo, Inc.

• When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

• Democracy passes into despotism.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Government

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