Plato Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”

“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”

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

“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.”

“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.”

“Democracy passes into despotism.”