Some quotes by Plato the great Greek Philosopher and Mathematician
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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.
Know thyself.
~Plato
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Friends have all things in common.
~Quote by Plato on friendship
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
~Plato’s inspiring quote on education.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
~Plato on ‘lies’
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Love is a serious mental disease.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
~Plato on ignorance
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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