Plato

“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

— Plato

“Life must be lived as play.”

— Plato

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

— Plato

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

— Plato

“Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”

— Plato

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

— Plato

“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”

— Plato

“Philosophy is the highest music.”

— Plato

“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”

— Plato

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.”

— Plato

“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.”

— 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

“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”

— Plato

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

— Plato

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”

— Plato

“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”

— Plato

“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”

— Plato

“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”

— Plato

“We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”

— Plato

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

— Plato