"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent." Plato
"Ignorance is the root of all evil." Plato
"Necessity is the mother of invention." Plato
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." Plato
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." Plato
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." Plato
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." Plato
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." Plato
"Death is not the worst than can happen to men." Plato
"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable." Plato
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." Plato
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." Plato
"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil." Plato
"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures." Plato
"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it." Plato
"No human thing is of serious importance." Plato
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." 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
"Lies are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." Plato
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." Plato
"Friends have all things in common." Plato
"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters." Plato
"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." Plato
