Quotes from Plato

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

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

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

The good is the beautiful.

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.

The wisest have the most authority.

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.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.