Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. (Plato)
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. (Plato)
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. (Plato)
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. (Plato)
I wonder if we could contrive some magnificent myth that would in itself carry conviction to our whole community (Plato)
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 bent of the genius of each. (Plato)
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. (Plato)
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. (Plato)
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, And nothing else. (Plato)
When men speak ill of you, live so as nobody may believe them. (Plato)
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 persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches. (Plato)
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed. (Plato)
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. (Plato)
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 life, as Love awakens them (Plato)