I exhort you also to take part in the gr... by Plato | We Heart Quotes

Life philosopher Philosophy Ancient Greece Athens

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

- Plato

Other quotes by Plato

Mankind

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

- Plato

Harm May Man

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

- Plato

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

- Plato

Age Nature Will

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

Heart

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

- Plato

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