" Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. "

Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" You cannot conceive the many without the one. "

Plato, Dialogues, Parmenides Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" 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 Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" The beginning is the most important part of the work. "

Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. "

Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Death is not the worst than can happen to men. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. "

Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. "

Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" They certainly give very strange names to diseases. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Science is nothing but perception. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul… For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_. "

Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. "

Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" 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 Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. "

Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Friends have all things in common. "

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedrus Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? "

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. "

Plato, Symposium Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" 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 Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men. "

Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" 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 Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

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