Plato Quotes

“the States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:men character

“Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:beauty mind simplicity character

“false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

― Plato, Phaedo

topic:words evil

“For every one, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:world

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who could reason.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:reason

“Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:education learning

“courage is a kind of salvation.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:courage

“No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:poverty wealth

“I replied: There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to enquire, whether the way is smooth...”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:age way

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