Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Plato Quotes
DeathFearEvilGoodUncertainty No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
ReasoningMathematicsCapability I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
FreedomLearningMemoryCompulsion No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
InjusticeFearSelf-PreservationHypocrisy Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Human NatureChoiceMoralityWisdom To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
TaxationJusticeInjustice When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
LeadershipWisdomGovernancePeace 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.
DemocracyEqualityGovernance Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
EffortProsperityCultivationApplication 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.
InjusticeEvilMorality 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.
ChildrenVirtueEducationStories 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.
MusicSoulVirtueEducation Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
KnowledgeJusticeWisdomEthics Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
ExcessChangeConsequenceModeration Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
ParentingResponsibilityPerseveranceEducation No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
LoveOrderBeautyEducationDiscipline To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
IgnoranceLearningTrainingMisfortune Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
WisdomHonorGainHuman NatureValue There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
ResponsibilityMoralityLaws Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
IgnoranceIntellectUpbringingCharacter 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.
DemocracyDictatorshipLibertyTyrannyExtremism Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
IntentDesirePower He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
JusticeCitizenshipGovernanceMorality Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
WorkEffortAchievement I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
InterdependenceCollaborationUnity As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
MusicPoliticsSocietyStability For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
FocusSpecializationMasteryLimitation Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
HolinessJusticeWisdomSpirituality We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
MusicInspirationImaginationJoyMorality 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.