Plato quotes

Only the dead have seen the end of war. (Plato)
Poverty consists not in the decrease in one's possessions, but in the increase in one's greed.
Plato
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
Plato
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. (Plato)
Good people do not need law to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato
Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
Plato
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
Plato
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.
Plato
Friends have all things in common. (Plato)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Plato
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato