Plato

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

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

“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”

“For good nurture and education, implant good constitutions.”

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

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”

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

“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”

“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.”

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

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

“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”

“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.”

“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”

“The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.”

“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”

“The good is the beautiful.”

“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

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

“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”

“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”