Plato
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.Collection: Graduation
The measure of a man is what he does with power.Collection: Power
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.Collection: Men
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.Collection: Women
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.Collection: Parenting
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.Collection: Education
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.Collection: Good
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.Collection: Men
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.Collection: Knowledge
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.Collection: Fear
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.Collection: Faith
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.Collection: Science
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.Collection: Happiness
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.Collection: Government
The beginning is the most important part of the work.Collection: Work
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.Collection: Great
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.Collection: Love
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.Collection: Good
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Collection: Learning
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.Collection: Great
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.Collection: Equality
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.Collection: Wisdom
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Collection: God
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.Collection: Good
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Collection: Men
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.Collection: Legal
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.Collection: History
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.Collection: Power
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.Collection: Knowledge
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.Collection: Fear
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.Collection: Business
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.Collection: Inspirational
Science is nothing but perception.Collection: Science
Philosophy is the highest music.Collection: Music
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.Collection: Best
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.Collection: Knowledge
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.Collection: Knowledge
Love is a serious mental disease.Collection: Love
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Collection: Nature
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.Collection: God
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.Collection: Death
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is true opinion.Collection: Knowledge
Courage is a kind of salvation.Collection: Courage
It is right to give every man his due.Collection: Legal
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.Collection: Life