Plato quotes and words of wisdom

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Found in the topic Law.

"Attention to health is lifes greatest hindrance."
Found in the topic Health.

"Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body."
Found in the topic War.

"The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way."
Found in the topic Love.

"The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men."
Found in the topic Government.

"Life must be lived as play."
Found in the topic Life.

"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."
Found in the topic Children.

"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history."
Found in the topic Poetry.

"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."
Found in the topic Potential.

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."
Found in the topic Thief.

"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, And philosophy begins in wonder."
Found in the topic Wonder.

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
Found in the topic Kindness.

"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers."
Found in the topic If.

"Books are immortal sons deifying their sires."
Found in the topic Book.

"Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in government."
Found in the topic Excess.

"Medicine is an art, and attends to the nature and constitution of the patient, and has principles of action And reason in each case."
Found in the topic Medicine.

"More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, And nothing else."
Found in the topic Accomplishment.

"Pleasure is the bait of sin."
Found in the topic Pleasure.

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
Found in the topic Injustice.

Interesting Quotes

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.Ashley Montague