1 – “A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”- Plato
2 – “All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.”- Plato
3 – “All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”- Plato
4 – “And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”- Plato
5 – “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”- Plato
6 – “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”- Plato
7 – “Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.”- Plato
8 – “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”- Plato
9 – “Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”- Plato
10 – “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”- Plato
11 – “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”- Plato
12 – “Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”- Plato
13 – “For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”- Plato
14 – “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”- Plato
15 – “He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”- Plato
16 – “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”- Plato
17 – “If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”- Plato
18 – “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”- Plato
19 – “It is right to give every man his due.”- Plato
20 – “Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”- Plato
21 – “Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.”- Plato
22 – “Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”- Plato
23 – “Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”- Plato
24 – “Life must be lived as play.”- Plato
25 – “Love is a serious mental disease.”- Plato
26 – “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
27 – “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”- Plato
28 – “No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”- Plato
29 – “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”- Plato
30 – “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”- Plato
31 – “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
32 – “Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”- Plato
33 – “Science is nothing but perception.”- Plato
34 – “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”- Plato
35 – “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”- Plato
36 – “The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”- Plato
37 – “The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”- Plato
38 – “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”- Plato
39 – “The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”- Plato
40 – “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”- Plato
41 – “The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”- Plato
42 – “The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”- Plato
43 – “There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”- Plato
44 – “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”- Plato
45 – “There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”- Plato
46 – “There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”- Plato
47 – 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
48 – “Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”- Plato
49 – “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”- Plato
50 – “This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.”- Plato
51 – “To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.”- Plato
52 – “We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”- Plato
53 – “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”- Plato
54 – “We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”- Plato
55 – “Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”- Plato
56 – “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”- Plato
57 – “Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”- Plato
