Plato Quotes

427-347 BC, Greek Philosopher
quotes
85
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“Truth is its own reward.”
Truth
“Even the gods love jokes.”
Humor
“A well begun is half ended.”
Action
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
Love
“All learning has an emotional base.”
Learning
“The wisest have the most authority.”
Wisdom
“Man is a being in search of meaning.”
Humankind
“Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.”
Slander
“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”
Faith
“Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.”
Pleasure
“Self conquest is the greatest of victories.”
Victory
“Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.”
Humankind
“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”
Wealth
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
Love
“Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.”
Health
“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”
Rhetoric
“Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.”
Wisdom
“Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.”
Poetry and Poets
“The first and the best victory is to conquer self.”
Control
“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
Knowledge
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”
Psychology
“I have good hope that there is something after death.”
Immortality
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Planning
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
Opinions
“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?”
Death and Dying
“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”
Nations
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
Worry
“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.”
Truth