Plato is a great philosopher in ancient Greece. Many of his famous sayings are very philosophical and worthy of our understanding. The following are Plato's famous quotes that I have compiled for you. You are welcome to read them.
Plato’s classic quotes
1. Beauty is a natural advantage.
2. Humans are animals that seek meaning.
3. Self-conquest is the greatest victory.
4. Thinking is the self-talk of the soul.
5. Telling the truth is the virtue of a speaker.
6. The king’s ancestors were all slaves.
7. Knowledge is indeed food for the soul. "Protagoras"
8. Everyone in love is a poet.
9. Philosophers spend their entire lives preparing for death.
10. It is not human nature to abandon good and pursue evil.
Selection of Plato’s famous quotes
1. Patience is the foundation of all intelligence.
2. Respecting people should not be more important than respecting the truth.
3. No matter how difficult it is, never ask for mercy.
4. Beauty has the function and power to induce people to do good.
5. A good start is half the battle.
6. Knowledge is the strongest power among all abilities. "Utopia"
7. Delaying time is the best way to suppress anger.
8. Holding back for a moment is the best way to suppress anger.
9. Most virtues are contained in good habits.
10. Use sports to exercise your body and music to cultivate your soul.
11. Not knowing one’s own ignorance is double ignorance.
12. The only secret to success—persist to the last minute.
13. The heart full of melody can penetrate into the depths of people's souls.
14. I really want to turn into a starry sky and look at you with countless pairs of eyes.
15. People not only live for themselves, but also live for the motherland.
16. A life without careful consideration and arrangement is not worth living.
17. Treating others unfairly is more degrading than being treated unfairly.
18. I declare that might is right and justice is the interest of the strong.
19. It is always a beautiful thing to fall in love with a lover for the sake of morality.
20. Only love with noble goals is noble and worthy of praise. "The Symposium"
Plato's Popular Quotations
1. Poverty and wealth can both degenerate workers and their works.
2. The first wealth is health, the second wealth is beauty, and the third wealth is property.
3. All knowledge that deviates from justice should be called cunning, not wisdom.
4. True love drives away crazy or unhealthy things.
5. Initial education should be a kind of entertainment, so that it is easier to discover a person's natural hobby.
6. Only the kind of love that drives people to love each other in a noble way is beautiful and worthy of praise. "Literary Dialogue"
7. Conquering oneself requires greater courage, and its victory is also the most glorious victory of all.
8. Human beings are the measure of all things, the existence of existents and the non-existence of non-existents.
9. Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools speak because they want to say something.
10. No matter what a person does, if he does not get the right time and favorable opportunity, all his efforts will be in vain.
11. Time takes away everything and will change your name, appearance, personality and destiny over the years.
12. People who do not make money with their own hands are often not greedy for money; only those who make money with their own hands have one pen and two pens.
13. The most moral people are those who are satisfied with their morality without showing it on the outside.
14. A good person is good because he is wise, and a bad person is bad because he is stupid.
15. A person should not be tempted by fame, money and status... to neglect justice and other virtues.
16. We are not all born the same. Everyone has different personalities and is suitable for different jobs. "Country"
17. The most virtuous people are those who are satisfied with their virtue without showing it outwardly.
18. As many ways as women’s nature is inferior to us men, there are as many ways in which women are superior to us.
19. When love taps on the shoulder, even men who usually disdain poetry and painting will become poets.
20. We should try to ensure that some of the stories children begin to hear must be the best lessons with moral implications.
21. There is nothing happier than health, although they did not think it was the greatest happiness before they fell ill.
22. When the beautiful soul and the beautiful appearance are harmoniously integrated, people will see that this is the most perfect beauty in the world.
23. Only by paying equal attention to both gymnastics and music can one become a complete personality. Because gymnastics can exercise the body and music can cultivate the spirit.
24. If a person has no knowledge of a certain skill, he will not be able to make correct judgments about the language and actions of that skill.
25. Love, and only emotion, can make people dare to sacrifice their lives for the one they love; not only men can do this, but women can do it too.
26. People with a calm and cheerful temperament are less likely to feel the pressure of old age, but for people with the opposite temperament, youth and old age are equally burdensome.
27. There must be a balance between physical education and intellectual education. Sports should create strong warriors and infuse a sound spirit with a sound body.
28. The beauty of language, the beauty of music and the beauty of rhythm all express good temperament. The so-called good temper is not the meaning that people usually use to compliment stupid people, but the true perfection of the soul.
29. We should learn to regard the beauty of the soul as more precious than the beauty of the body. If you meet a beautiful soul, even if he is not very beautiful in body, you should arouse love for him and use him to conceive the principles most suitable for benefiting young people.
30. If a person’s mind, whether in happiness or distress, remains true to the creed taught by reason about what should be feared and what should not be feared, then we will do it because of it. His *** part calls each such person a brave person.
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