9 Plato Quotes on Character

Plato quotes on character

7. The eyes which are the windows of the soul.

25. The gods are not magicians who transform themselves; neither do they deceive mankind in any way.

30. Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

31. Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul; on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful; and also because he who has received this education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason why; and when reason comes he will recognise and salute the friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.

35. Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

51. The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.

66. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

68. You can learn more about a man in an hour of play, than in a year of conversation.

72. Here, first of all men for pure justice famed, And moral virtue, Aristocles lies; And if there e'er has lived one truly wise, This man was wiser still; too great for envy.