Quotes by 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.
(Dialogues, Theatetus)

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
(The Republic)

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
(The Republic)

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
(The Republic)

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.
(The Republic)

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
(The Republic)

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
(The Republic)

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
(The Republic)

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
(The Republic)

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
(The Republic)

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
(The Republic)

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
(The Republic)

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
(The Republic)

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
(The Republic)

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
(The Republic)