Plato

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Plato

It is beautiful to wish to add another’s light to your own.

Plato

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.

Plato

It is by justice, that we can truly authenticate a man’s value or nullity, the absence of justice, is the absence of what makes him man.

Plato

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Plato

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Plato

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Plato

It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

Plato

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

Plato

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Plato