Plato quotes that really are in his dialogues
The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: The unexamined life is not worth living. · Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher. · The important thing is not to live, but to live well.. (Updated Aug 27, 2018.)
Many lines that go around under Plato's name are not his. These are: they come from the Apology, Theaetetus, Timaeus, Republic or Phaedo, usually spoken by Socrates.
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Top 11
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Apology of Socrates, 38a.
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Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher.
Theaetetus, 155d.
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The important thing is not to live, but to live well.
Crito, 48b.
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The height of injustice is to seem just without being so.
Republic, Book II, 361a.
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The greatest penalty for refusing to rule is to be ruled by someone worse.
Republic, Book I, 347c.
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Those who practise philosophy in the right way are practising for dying.
Phaedo, 67e.
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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
Theaetetus, 189e.
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Time is the moving image of eternity.
Timaeus, 37d.
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What I do not know, I do not think I know either.
Apology of Socrates, 21d.
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To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not.
Apology of Socrates, 29a.
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It is worse to do injustice than to suffer it.
Gorgias, 469c and 474b.
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