# Plato's most famous quotes (with the dialogue they come from)

The unexamined life, wonder as the beginning of philosophy and time as the moving image of eternity: Plato's most quoted lines, each with the dialogue and Stephanus number it comes from, flagging when the speaker is not Socrates.

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- Feb 3, 2021 · seasonfinale_mty
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## Top 18

1. **To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Apology, 29a.
2. **Thinking is the soul talking to itself.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Theaetetus, 189e-190a.
3. **What I do not know, I do not think I know either.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Apology, 21d.
4. **Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Theaetetus, 155d.
5. **One must not return injustice for injustice.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Crito, 49b-c.
6. **I am the kind of man who listens to nothing but the argument that seems best to me on reflection.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Crito, 46b.
7. **The height of injustice is to seem just without being so.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Republic, II, 361a.
8. **Nothing in excess.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Protagoras, 343b. A Delphic maxim that Plato quotes.
9. **The unexamined life is not worth living.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Apology, 38a.
10. **Time is the moving image of eternity.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Timaeus, 37d.
11. **Those who practise philosophy in the right way are in training for dying.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Phaedo, 67e.
12. **The most important thing is not life, but the good life.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Crito, 48b.
13. **The penalty for refusing to rule is to be ruled by someone worse.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Republic, I, 347c.
14. **Justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Republic, I, 338c. Thrasymachus says it, and Socrates refutes him.
15. **The city in which those who are to rule are least eager to rule is the best governed.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Republic, VII, 520d.
16. **It is good to say fine things twice and three times.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gorgias, 498e.
17. **Boys should not drink wine at all: one should not pour fire on fire.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Laws, II, 666a.
18. **Wine is a remedy for the crabbedness of old age.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Laws, II, 666b.

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