Plato

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

No human thing is of serious importance.

Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

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

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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.

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and_x000D_ _x000D_ on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from_x000D_ _x000D_ the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.