He was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future. – Plato
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. – Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work. – Plato
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. – Plato
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. – Plato
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness. – Plato
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. – Plato
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. – Plato
Character is simply habit long continued. – Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato
Truth should be highly valued. – Plato
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. – Plato
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. – Plato
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue? – Plato
He was a wise man who invented God. – Plato
Pleasure is the bait of sin. – Plato
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. – Plato
Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. – Plato
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato
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