Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
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.
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato
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
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Plato
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.
Plato
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Plato
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.
Plato
Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato
Life must be lived as play.
Plato
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Plato
Necessity… the mother of invention.
Plato
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Plato
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Plato
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.
Plato
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
