Best Quotes by Plato (Top 10)

  1. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
  2. 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.
  3. Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something
  4. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
  5. Only the dead have seen the end of war.
  6. The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men
  7. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
  8. The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
  9. Love is a serious mental disease.
  10. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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