“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”
– Plato
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
– Plato
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
– Plato
“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
– Plato
“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”
– Plato
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
– 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
“Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”
– 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
“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”
– Plato
“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”
– Plato
“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”
– Plato
“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
– Plato
“The good is the beautiful.”
– Plato
“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”
– 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
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
– Plato
“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”
– Plato
“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”
– Plato
“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”
– Plato
“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”
– Plato
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
– Plato
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
– Plato
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
– Plato
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
– Plato
“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”
– Plato
“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
“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.”
– Plato
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
– Plato
“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
– Plato