Plato quotes was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western Born: 00/00/0424 Died: 00/00/0347 Country: greece

• Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ( Plato) [death/people/fear/evil]
• Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ( Plato)
• Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. ( Plato) [men]
• Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. ( Plato) [love]
• He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. ( Plato) [more]
• Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike. ( Plato) [democracy/form/government/equality]
• Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ( Plato) [democracy/form/tyranny/slavery]
• The first and the best victory is to conquer self. ( Plato)
• Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another. ( Plato) [war]
• These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not. ( Plato) [willpower/democracy/willpower/agreeable]
• Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. ( Plato) [attention/health/life]
• To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege. ( Plato) [state/right/enemies/state]
• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. ( Plato) [honesty]
• The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. ( Plato) [punishment/take/government/government]
• 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. ( Plato) [child/life/men/light]
• We are twice armed if we fight with faith. ( Plato) [fight/faith]
• Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ( Plato) [change/direction]
• Man is a two-legged animal without feathers. ( Plato)
• Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ( Plato) [ignorance/evil/bad/training]
• All learning has an emotional base. ( Plato)
• I have good hope that there is something after death. ( Plato) [death]
• Even the gods love jokes. ( Plato) [love]
• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ( Plato) [love]
• Love is a serious mental disease. ( Plato) [love/disease]
• They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. ( Plato) [give/strange]
• Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ( Plato) [knowledge/evil]
• Man is a being in search of meaning. ( Plato) [being/search]
• Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. ( Plato) [love/joy/wonder]
• Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ( Plato) [music/sound/reach/education]
• Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ( Plato) [pleasure/evil]
• The beginning is the most important part of the work. ( Plato)

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