“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
Plato
“Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
Plato
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Plato
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
Plato
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
Plato
“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
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
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato, The Republic
“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
Plato