Plato Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

“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.”

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”

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

“He was a wise man who invented beer.”

“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.”

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”