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States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
The good is the beautiful.
Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Plato
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Plato
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
Plato
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
There are three classes of men: lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato
There are two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help and what they cannot.
Plato
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Plato
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato
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.
Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Plato
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato
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