We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
– Plato
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
– Plato
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
– Plato
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
– Plato
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
– Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
– Plato
There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
– Plato
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
– Plato
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
– Plato
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
– Plato
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
– Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
– Plato
The good is the beautiful.
– Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
– Plato
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
– Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
– Plato
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
– Plato
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
– Plato
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
– Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
– Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
– Plato
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
– Plato
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
– Plato
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
– Plato
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
– Plato
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
– Plato
Life must be lived as play.
– Plato
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
– Plato
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
– Plato
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
– Plato
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
– Plato
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
– Plato
I would fain grow old learning many things.
– Plato
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
– Plato
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
– Plato
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
– 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
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
– Plato
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
– 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
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
– Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
– Plato
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
– Plato
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
– Plato
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.