“I shall assume that your silence gives consent.”
Source: Cratylus
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Famous Plato Quotes
“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”
Source: Laws
“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
Source: Five Great Dialogues of Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.”
“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”
Source: Laws
“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”
Source: Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman
“Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.”
Source: The Republic