Plato Quotes
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Princes are never without flatterers to seduce them; ambition to deprave them; and desires to corrupt them.
[Kings]
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Refrain from covetousness, and thy estate shall prosper.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
[Rhetoric]
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Science is nothing but perception.
[Science]
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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
[Conquest]
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites
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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellowmen.
[Truth]
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Slavery is a system of the most complete injustice.
[Slavery]
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Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
[Art]
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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The car just seemed to be different in qualifying this afternoon to how it was in free practice
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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from excessive self-love. - He who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
[Community]
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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.
[Action]
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction
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