In the words of Plato:
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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