"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
— Plato

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
— Plato

"Music gives soul to the universe
wings to the mind
flight to the imagination
and life to everything"
— Plato

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
— Plato

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men afraid of the light"
— Plato

"There is truth in wine and children"
— Plato (Symposium and Phaedrus)

"Those who tell the stories rule society."
— Plato

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
— Plato

"only the dead have seen the end of war"
— Plato

"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings"
— Plato

"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them."
— Plato (Plato's Republic)

"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
— 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

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
— Plato

"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? "
— Plato

"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."
— Plato

"Necessity is the mother of invention."
— Plato

"When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them."
— Plato

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
— Plato

"good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"
— Plato

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. "
— Plato

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. "
— Plato

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
— Plato

"Love is a serious mental disease."
— Plato

"Character is simply habit long continued."
— Plato

": اگه با دلت کسي يا چيزي رو دوست داشتي زياد جدي نگيرش. چون کار دل دوست داشتنه... درست مثل کار چشم که ديدنه ... ولي اگه کسي رو با عقلت دوست داشتي بدون داري چيزي رو تجربه مي کني که اسمش عشق واقعيه"
— Plato

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
— Plato

"Books are immortal sons defying their sires."
— Plato

"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."
— Plato

"But Above all things truth beareth away the victory "
— 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 (The Republic of Plato)

"People who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
— Plato

""You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than you can from a lifetime of conversation.""
— Plato

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. "
— Plato

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation"
— Plato

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light."
— Plato

"In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society."
— Plato (Plato's Republic)

"Love is the pursuit of the whole."
— Plato

"The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers 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."
— Plato (Plato's Republic)

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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— Plato

"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."
— Plato

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. "
— Plato

""To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates"
— Plato

"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
— Plato

"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with."
— Plato

"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."
— Plato

""Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly"."
— Plato

"…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."
— Plato (The Republic and Other Works)