Quotes from Plato

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

No one can escape his destiny.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

All learning has an emotional base.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

Excellent things are rare.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'