There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
PLATO
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
PLATO
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
PLATO
You are so young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as judge of the highest matters.
PLATO
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
PLATO
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
PLATO
Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATO
Friends have all things in common.
PLATO
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
PLATO
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
PLATO
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
PLATO
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
PLATO
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
PLATO
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PLATO
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.
PLATO
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
PLATO
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
PLATO
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
PLATO
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
PLATO
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
PLATO
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
PLATO
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
PLATO
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
PLATO
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
PLATO
Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
PLATO
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
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
PLATO
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
PLATO
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
PLATO
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
PLATO
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
More Plato Quotes:
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATO
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
PLATO
The wisest have the most authority.
PLATO
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
PLATO
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO
Philosophy is the highest music.
PLATO
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
PLATO
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
