Newest Plato Quotes


The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
- Plato


Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another…..Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain, for eternity is then only a single night.
- Plato


No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Plato


The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways-I to die, and you to live. Which is better god only knows.
- Plato


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


The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey thither.
- Plato


He who is of a clam 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.
- Plato


No physician, insofar as he is a physician, considers his own good in what he prescribes, but he good of his patients; for the true physician is also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere moneymaker!
- Plato


The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato