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Plato Quotes
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About Plato
 Life: 428 - 348 BC Country:  Greece Profession: Philosopher; Plato (428/427 BC[a] - 348/347 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher. Together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.
more... QuotationsAn imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
~ Plato
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
~ Plato
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. ~ Plato
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you have escaped not from one master but from many. ~ Plato
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~ Plato
The wisest have the most authority. ~ Plato
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. ~ Plato
Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ~ Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men. ~ Plato
Even the gods love jokes. ~ Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public
affairs is to be ruled by evil men. ~ Plato
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. ~ Plato
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