Plato Quotes
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. I shall assume that your silence gives consent. I would fain grow old learning many things. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. 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. Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. It is right to give every man his due. Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Knowledge is true opinion. Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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