Plato Quotes
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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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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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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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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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
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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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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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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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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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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
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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 has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.