Famous Quotes

Quotes by Plato

• A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
• A good education is another name for happiness.
• A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
• A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
• All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
• And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
• Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
• Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
• At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
• Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
• Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
• Courage is a kind of salvation.
• Courage is knowing what not to fear.
• Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
• Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
• Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
• Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
• Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
• For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
• For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
• Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
• Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
• He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
• 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.
• He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
• Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
• I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
• I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
• I would fain grow old learning many things.
• I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
• I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
• I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
• If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.