We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

- Plato

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

- Plato

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

- Plato

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

- Plato

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

- Plato

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

- Plato

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

- Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

- 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

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings 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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

- Plato

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

- Plato

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

- Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

- Plato

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

- Plato

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

- Plato

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

- Plato

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

- Plato

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

- Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

- Plato