Plato Quotes

"Life must be lived as play."

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

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

"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."

"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."

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."

"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one."

"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one."

"You should not honor men more than truth."

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

"Writing is the geometry of the soul."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"He was a wise man who invented God."