Quotes from Plato

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

It is right to give every man his due.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.