Plato, (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher Quotes

The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable.

When there is an income tax, the just will pay more and the unjust less.

Nothing ever is, but is always becoming.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Wealth... And poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -- in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -- and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.