Quotations From PLATO

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• 21.

  Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 564 A....
• 22.

  Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 536 E....
• 23.

  One man cannot practice many arts with success.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 374 A....
  
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• 24.

  The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 389 B....
  
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• 25.

  There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. 183 B....
• 26.

  You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being framed.

  Plato (5th century B.C.).
  
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• 27.

  For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Socrates, in The Republic, bk. 4, sct. 424. He continued: "It is here in music that our guardians should erect their guard-house." Adeimantus replied: "At any rate it is here that lawlessness easily creeps in unawares."
  
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• 28.

  I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Apology, 39 C....
  
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• 29.

  Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Epistolae, 336 B....
  
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• 30.

  Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Theatetus, 155 D....