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''A dog has the soul of a philosopher.'' - Plato
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''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
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''A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thin…'' - Plato
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''All learning has an emotional base.'' - Plato
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''Abstinence is the surety of temperance'' - Plato
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''Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.'' - Plato
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''All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at t…'' - Plato
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''Arguments derived from probabilities are idle'' - Plato
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''Arguments, like men are often pretenders'' - Plato
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''At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.'' - Plato
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''Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another'' - Plato
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''Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding'' - Plato
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''Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.'' - Plato
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''Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.'' - Plato
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''Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.'' - Plato
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''Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.'' - Plato
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''Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.'' - Plato
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''Courage is a kind of salvation.'' - Plato
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''By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with jus…'' - Plato
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''Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.'' - Plato
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''Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar be…'' - Plato
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''Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.'' - Plato
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''Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.'' - Plato
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''Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.'' - Plato
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''Excellent things are rare.'' - Plato
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''Everything in Moderation'' - Plato
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''For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation'' - Plato
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''For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent lif…'' - Plato
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''For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other…'' - Plato
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''From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the w…'' - Plato
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''For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important polit…'' - Plato
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''He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.'' - Plato
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''Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.'' - Plato
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''He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.'' - Plato
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''Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.'' - Plato
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''He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.'' - Plato
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''Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.'' - Plato
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''I have good hope that there is something after death.'' - Plato
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''I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.'' - Plato
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''I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.'' - Plato
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''Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad trainin…'' - Plato
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''If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind …'' - Plato
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''I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this lik…'' - Plato
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''In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in …'' - Plato
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''Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients-…'' - Plato
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''In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or th…'' - Plato
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''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
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''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
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''Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.'' - Plato
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''Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.'' - Plato
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''Knowledge is the food of the soul.'' - Plato
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''Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.'' - Plato
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''Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.'' - Plato
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''Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be- Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discov…'' - Plato
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''Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.'' - Plato
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''Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.'' - Plato
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''Love is a serious mental disease.'' - Plato
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''Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.'' - Plato
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''Man is a being in search of meaning.'' - Plato
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''Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.'' - Plato
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