The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
- Plato

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.
- Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
- Plato

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
- Plato

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

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

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Plato

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
- Plato

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

Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
- 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

The greatest penalty of evildoing – namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
- Plato

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

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

Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
- Plato

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

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
- Plato

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
- Plato

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

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
- Plato

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

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
- Plato

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

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato

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

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
- Plato

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
- Plato

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

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
- Plato

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
- Plato

You cannot conceive the many without the one.
- Plato

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

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Plato

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

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

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

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
- Plato

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
- Plato