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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 the right moment, without meddling with anything else”
Plato
“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”
Plato
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
Plato
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
Plato
“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
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
“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
Plato
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
Plato
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
Plato
“He who is of 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
“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”
Plato
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
Plato
“Democracy passes into despotism.”
Plato
“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”
Plato
“Life must be lived as play.”
Plato
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”
Plato
“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”
Plato
“Courage is a kind of salvation.”
Plato
“Necessity... the mother of invention.”
Plato
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
Plato
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
Plato
“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”
Plato
“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”
Plato
“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”
Plato
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
Plato
“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
Plato
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Plato
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
Plato
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
Plato
“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
