Plato Quotes
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Philosophy is the highest music.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Science is nothing but perception.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
