Plato Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

62 Famous Quotes by Plato
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“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”
Harmony Quotes
“They certainly give very strange names to diseases.”
Names Quotes
“He who is of a 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.”
Burden Quotes
“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”
Wealth Quotes
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
Politics / government Quotes
“The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.”
Age Quotes
“We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.”
Body Quotes
“Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.”
Boys Quotes
“Science is nothing but perception.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes
“The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
Government Quotes
“Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.”
Poetry Quotes
“It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.”
Punishment Quotes