Plato

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.

At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

—Plato

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.

Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

—Plato

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.

Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.

With these means, man can attain perfection.

—Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

—Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul?

Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

—Plato

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

—Plato

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

—Plato

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

—Plato

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

—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

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

—Plato

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

—Plato

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

—Plato

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

—Plato

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

—Plato

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

—Plato

Character is simply habit long continued.

—Plato

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.

—Plato

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

—Plato

Socrates: God is perfectly simple; he changes not; he deceives not, either by sign or word, by dream or waking vision.

—Plato

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

—Plato

You should not honor men more than truth.

—Plato

When speaking of divine perfection, we signify that God is just and true and loving, the author of order, not disorder, of good, not evil.

We signify that he is justice, that he is truth, that he is love, that he is order, that he is the very progress of.

—Plato

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

—Plato

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.

—Plato

Necessity is the mother of invention.

—Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

—Plato

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice.

This is the only education which deserves the name.

—Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say.

Fools because they have to say something.

—Plato

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

—Plato