Quotes from Plato

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

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.

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.

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

God ever geometrizes.

God forever geometrizes.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

God is a geometrician.

The god is the beautiful.

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.