Plato Quotes
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.