Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. May these Plato Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” Plato
2. “Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.” Plato
3. “Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.” Plato
4. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Plato
5. “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” Plato
6. “Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.” Plato
7. “A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.” Plato
8. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” Plato
9. “Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” Plato
10. “Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.” Plato
11. “Science is nothing but perception.” Plato
12. “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” Plato
13. “All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.” Plato
14. “Knowledge is true opinion.” Plato
15. “He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.” Plato
16. “Courage is a kind of salvation.” Plato
17. “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” Plato
18. “Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.” Plato
19. “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.” Plato
20. “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” Plato
21. “The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.” Plato
22. “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” Plato
23. “The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.” Plato
24. “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” Plato
25. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” Plato
26. “The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.” Plato
27. “If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.” Plato
28. “He who is of 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
29. “No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.” Plato
30. “Necessity, the mother of invention.” Plato
31. “The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.” Plato
32. “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Plato
33. “Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.” Plato
34. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.” Plato
35. “No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.” Plato
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