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Top 200 Plato Quotes (2025 Update)
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Plato Quote: “So, Euthyphro, piety then, should be regarded as a reciprocal exchange between Gods and humans.”

201. “So, Euthyphro, piety then, should be regarded as a reciprocal exchange between Gods and humans.”

Plato Quote: “All these were lovers and emulators and disciples of the culture of the Lacedaemonians, and any one may perceive that their wisdom was of this character; consisting of short memorable sentences, which they severally uttered. And they met together and dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, as the first-fruits of their wisdom, the far-famed inscriptions, which are in all men’s mouths – ‘Know thyself,’ and ‘Nothing too much.”

202. “All these were lovers and emulators and disciples of the culture of the Lacedaemonians, and any one may perceive that their wisdom was of this character; consisting of short memorable sentences, which they severally uttered. And they met together and dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, as the first-fruits of their wisdom, the far-famed inscriptions, which are in all men’s mouths – ‘Know thyself,’ and ‘Nothing too much.”

Plato Quote: “The fairest music is that which delights the best and best educated.”

203. “The fairest music is that which delights the best and best educated.”

Plato Quote: “At that point they all agreed not to get drunk that evening; they decided to drink only as much as pleased them.”

204. “At that point they all agreed not to get drunk that evening; they decided to drink only as much as pleased them.”

Plato Quote: “Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

205. “Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

Plato Quote: “This early dialogue features the charismatic young politician Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates.”

206. “This early dialogue features the charismatic young politician Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates.”

Plato Quote: “Then you have sufficient indication, he said, that any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body, and also a lover of wealth or of honors, either or both.”

207. “Then you have sufficient indication, he said, that any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body, and also a lover of wealth or of honors, either or both.”

Plato Quote: “Arts like carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher than music, which for the most part is mere guess-work.”

208. “Arts like carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher than music, which for the most part is mere guess-work.”

Plato Quote: “Yes; the meaning is only too clear. But, oh! my beloved Socrates, let me entreat you once more to take my advice and escape.”

209. “Yes; the meaning is only too clear. But, oh! my beloved Socrates, let me entreat you once more to take my advice and escape.”

Plato Quote: “He whose desires are strong in one direction will have them weaker in others; they will be like a stream which has been drawn off into another channel.”

210. “He whose desires are strong in one direction will have them weaker in others; they will be like a stream which has been drawn off into another channel.”

Plato Quote: “My first observation is, that your lawgiver ordered you to endure hardships, because he thought that those who had not this discipline would run away from those who had. But he ought to have considered further, that those who had never learned to resist pleasure would be equally at the mercy of those who had, and these are often among the worst of mankind. Pleasure, like fear, would overcome them and take away their courage and freedom.”

211. “My first observation is, that your lawgiver ordered you to endure hardships, because he thought that those who had not this discipline would run away from those who had. But he ought to have considered further, that those who had never learned to resist pleasure would be equally at the mercy of those who had, and these are often among the worst of mankind. Pleasure, like fear, would overcome them and take away their courage and freedom.”

Plato Quote: “The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men’s characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm 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.”

212. “The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men’s characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm 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 Quote: “What about someone who believes in beautiful things but doesn’t believe in the beautiful itself and isn’t able to follow anyone who could lead him to the knowledge of it? Don’t you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state? Isn’t this dreaming: whether asleep or awake, to think that a likeness is not a likeness but rather the thing itself that it is like?”

213. “What about someone who believes in beautiful things but doesn’t believe in the beautiful itself and isn’t able to follow anyone who could lead him to the knowledge of it? Don’t you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state? Isn’t this dreaming: whether asleep or awake, to think that a likeness is not a likeness but rather the thing itself that it is like?”

Plato Quote: “Once you have the means of life, you must practice virtue.”

214. “Once you have the means of life, you must practice virtue.”

Plato Quote: “The very good and the very wicked are both quite rare, and that most men are between those extremes.”

215. “The very good and the very wicked are both quite rare, and that most men are between those extremes.”

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