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.
– Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
– Plato
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
– Plato
Necessity is the mother of invention.
– Plato
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
– Plato
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
– Plato
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
– Plato
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
– Plato
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
– Plato
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
– Plato
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
– Plato
Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
– Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
– Plato
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
– Plato
Love is a serious mental disease.
– Plato
Let each one of us leave every other kind of knowledge and seek and follow one thing only, if peradventure he may be able to learn and find some one who will make him able to learn and discern between good and evil, and so to choose always and everywhere the better life as he has opportunity.
– Plato
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
– Plato
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
– Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
– Plato
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
– Plato
To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.
– Plato
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
– Plato
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
– Plato
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
– Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.
– 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
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
– Plato
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
– Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
– Plato
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
– 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
Character is simply habit long continued.
– Plato
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
– Plato
Truth should be highly valued.
– Plato
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
– Plato
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
– Plato
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
– Plato
He was a wise man who invented God.
– 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