The quotations of

Plato

4th-century BCE Greek philosopher

429–349 BC

36 quotes, most often on Good & Evil, Government and Money. Part of the Philosophers collection.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
The RepublicIn context
- Art
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
The RepublicIn context
- Age
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
The Republic
- Money
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
The Laws (Plato’s last and longest dialogue)
- Youth
A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
The Republic, Book VIII, 566e.In context
- War & Peace
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
The Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book VII, 536eIn context
- Knowledge
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Dialogues, Phaedo
- Life & Death
The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Dialogues, Theatetus
- Good & Evil
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Money
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Dialogues, Phaedo
- Debate
No human thing is of serious importance.
The Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book X, 604cIn context
There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.
The Republic, 496d
- Government
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Theaetetus, 155d, The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3, 1871, p. 377
- Philosophy
Dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.
Phaedrus, 279c
- Beauty
- Prayer
There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes.
Timaeus, 22c (tr. Benjamin Jowett)
- History

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