Quotes from Plato

Democracy passes into despotism.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Excellent things are rare.

The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.....

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserved.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.