Plato Quotes

I'm a big fan of some of the stuff Plato preached, and am always on the lookout for great quotes, thought I would just compile them here so they would be easy to find.

source: ingy

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
--Plato

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
--Plato

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
--Plato

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
--Plato

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
--Plato

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
--Plato

Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
--Plato

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
--Plato

No human thing is of serious importance.
--Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.
--Plato

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

There is no such thing as a lover's oath.
--Plato

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
--Plato

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.
--Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
--Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
--Plato

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.
--Plato

You cannot conceive the many without the one.
--Plato

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
--Plato

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
--Plato