Plato's most famous quotes (with the dialogue they come from)
The top 3 according to 13 votes from people: To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. · Thinking is the soul talking to itself. · What I do not know, I do not think I know either.. (Updated Feb 3, 2021.)
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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Top 18
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To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not.
Apology, 29a.
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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
Theaetetus, 189e-190a.
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What I do not know, I do not think I know either.
Apology, 21d.
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Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Theaetetus, 155d.
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5
One must not return injustice for injustice.
Crito, 49b-c.
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I am the kind of man who listens to nothing but the argument that seems best to me on reflection.
Crito, 46b.
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The height of injustice is to seem just without being so.
Republic, II, 361a.
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Nothing in excess.
Protagoras, 343b. A Delphic maxim that Plato quotes.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Apology, 38a.
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Time is the moving image of eternity.
Timaeus, 37d.
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Those who practise philosophy in the right way are in training for dying.
Phaedo, 67e.
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The most important thing is not life, but the good life.
Crito, 48b.
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The penalty for refusing to rule is to be ruled by someone worse.
Republic, I, 347c.
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14
Justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger.
Republic, I, 338c. Thrasymachus says it, and Socrates refutes him.
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The city in which those who are to rule are least eager to rule is the best governed.
Republic, VII, 520d.
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It is good to say fine things twice and three times.
Gorgias, 498e.
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Boys should not drink wine at all: one should not pour fire on fire.
Laws, II, 666a.
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Wine is a remedy for the crabbedness of old age.
Laws, II, 666b.
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