10 Quotes Made By Plato ~ Know Thyself

Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death. [source: wikipedia]

10 Quotes Made By Plato

1. Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
   
   
2. Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
   
   
3. The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
   
   
4. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
   
   
5. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
   
   
6. Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
   
   
7. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of character and of wisdom.
   
   
8. 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.
   
   
9. Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
   
   
10. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

BONUS

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.

BONUS BONUS

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.