Plato

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

False words are not only evil in themselves but they infect the soul with evil.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

It is right to give every man his due.

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow even if that someone is yourself

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Harmony is a symphony and symphony is an agreement but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Kings are never without flatterers to seduce them, ambition to deprive them, and desires to corrupt them.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

The good is the beautiful.

The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Excess of liberty whether it lies in state or individuals seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

Love is a grave mental disease.

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom lovers of honor and lovers of gain.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Desires are only the lack of something and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none or very slight ones.

Love is the joy of the good the wonder of the wise the amazement of the gods.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

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

According to Greek mythology humans were originally created with four arms four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power Zeus split them into two separate parts condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Interference by the three classes with each others jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Philosophy is the highest music.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

No human thing is of serious importance.

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

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

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

Do not train children to learn by force and harshness but direct them to it by what amuses their minds so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

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.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

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.

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

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Any city however small is in fact divided into two one the city of the poor the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

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

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning to invention and to studies of any kind for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads and we are prone to blame studies from them.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

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.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers.