Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. (Plato)
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. (Plato)
Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all the other things called goods, operate equally as evils to the vicious and unjust, as they do as benefits to the just. (Plato)
The beginning is the most important part of the work. (Plato)
I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I don't THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are. (Plato)
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. (Plato)
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. (Plato)
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live. (Plato)
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. (Plato)
Medicine is an art, and attends to the nature and constitution of the patient, and has principles of action And reason in each case. (Plato)
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. (Plato)
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. (Plato)
Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. (Plato)
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. (Plato)