20 Powerful Philosophy Quotes of "Plato

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20 Powerful Philosophy Quotes of "Plato" 

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

2. "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." 

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

4. "Apply yourself both now and in the next life.

Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.

Though the land is good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation." 

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

Fools because they have to say something." 

6. "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." 

7. "Human behavior flows from three main sources:

Desire, emotion, knowledge." 

8. "Love is a serious mental disease." 

9. "True friendship can exist only between equals." 

10. "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." 

11. "There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless." 

12. "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." 

13. "Excellence is not a gift but a skill that takes practice.

We do not act rightly because we are excellent;

In fact, we achieve excellence by acting rightly." 

14. "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, & not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. 

This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character & of wisdom." 

15. "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder." 

16. "Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." 

17. "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain." 

18. "Necessity is the mother of invention." 

19. "The beginning is the most important part of the work." 

20. "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." 

- Plato

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