PLATO
INCREDILE LIFE CHANGING QUOTES
1. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
2. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At
the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
3. Wise men speak because they have something to say; folls because they have to say something
4. We can easily forgive a chils who is afraid of the dark ; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
5. Only the dead have seen the end of war
6. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men
7. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness ; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be
better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
8. The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself
9. Never discourage anyone… who continualy makes progress, no matter how slow
10. One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors
11. I’m the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing
12. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws
13. Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil
14. I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts
15. The measure of a man is what he does with power
16. Those who tell the stories rule society
17. The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings
18. Human behaviour flows from three main sources ; desire, emotion, and knowledge
19. Education is teaching oue children to desire the things
20. There are three classes of men ; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain
21. When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them
22. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot
23. In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or state. When we are
ill … we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one
24. Courage is knowing what not to fear
25. How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream ; or whether we are
awaake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
26. You shlould not honour men more than truth
27. The beginning is the most important part of the work
28. Necessity is the mother of invention
29. The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful
30. Death is not the worst that can happen to men
31. You’re my star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you
32. Character is simply habit long continued
33. People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make
you wilt and die
34. Musical innovation is full of danger to the state, for when modes of musci change, the fundamental laws of the state
always change with them
35. A house that has a library in it has a soul
36. The greatest wealth is to live content with lttle
37. No man should bring children into the worls who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education
38. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
39. Goog actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others
40. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body, but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion
obtains no hold on the mind.
41. Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by
the masses
42. An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers
43. A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found
even among a hundred thousand men.
44. Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole
45. I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy, but most importanly music, for the patterns in music and all the
arts are the keys to learning.
