Plato Quotes

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

We worship money instead of honour.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Bad company corrupts good character.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Character is long-standing habit.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

He who thinks that anything can be accomplished with money will himself likely to do anything for money.

Self-respect and prosperity are the most effective guardian of morals.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

It would be necessary to eliminate the excessive regard and esteem for wealth, because the craving for riches erodes the desire for true glory, prevents the cultivation of the virtues and results in countless seizures of what belongs to others, as well as many other dishonorable actions.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.