Quotes by Plato
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Knowledge is true opinion.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
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.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
