Plato's quotes
The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.
- Plato
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
- Plato
The man who has music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
- Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato
The soul is immortal, and is clothed successively in many bodies.
- Plato
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
- 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
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
- Plato
There is a written and an unwritten law. Written law is that under which we live in different cities, but that which has arisen from custom is called unwritten law.
- Plato