Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. "
Plato
Earth
Heaven
Wise
Related Quotes:
" This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. "
Plato
City
Our
Citizens
" The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. "
Plato
Important
Most
Training
" Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
Plato
Heart
Song
Back
" Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. "
Plato
Soul
Inspirational
Talking
" To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. "
Plato
Way
To Love
Love
" When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. "
Plato
War
People
Nothing
" We are twice armed if we fight with faith. "
Plato
Faith
Twice
Armed
" It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. "
Plato
Life
Common
Everybody
" Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. "
Plato
Which
Suffering
Injustice
" I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "
Plato
Work
Never
Doing
" The beginning is the most important part of the work. "
Plato
Part
Work
Beginning
" Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. "
Plato
Wonder
Good
Love Is
" At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. "
Plato
Touch
Everyone
Love
" Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. "
Plato
Democracy
Equality
Government
" Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. "
Plato
Excess
Lies
Only
" A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. "
Plato
Needs
Many
Mankind
" Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. "
Plato
Over
They Say
Twice
" Death is not the worst that can happen to men. "
Plato
Men
Worst
Happen
" As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. "
Plato
Say
Stones
Well
" It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. "
Plato
Events
Everyone
Look
" Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. "
Plato
Stem
Ignorance
Evil
" I would fain grow old learning many things. "
Plato
Many
Would
Old
" Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. "
Plato
Spirit
Parents
Children
" One man cannot practice many arts with success. "
Plato
Arts
Success
Practice
" The greatest wealth is to live content with little. "
Plato
Greatest
Content
Live
" I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. "
Plato
Known
Capable
Reasoning
" There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. "
Plato
Lovers
Wisdom
Honor
" Knowledge is true opinion. "
Plato
True
Knowledge
Opinion
" Democracy passes into despotism. "
Plato
Passes
Democracy
Despotism
" Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. "
Plato
Knowledge
Main
Three