Quotes from Plato

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

To be is to do.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

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.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Any peace is better than any war

Love is the pursuit of the whole.