Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass i

nto excess of slavery. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 56
4 A....)
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. (Plato (c.
427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 536 E....)
One man cannot practice many arts with success. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek
philosopher. Republic, 374 A....)
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of
lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the
state. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 389 B....)
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquir
ies, 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 vi
sible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world
dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason and that whosoev
er would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good
before his eyes. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Socrates, in The R
epublic, bk. 7, sct. 517.)
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek
philosopher. Socrates, in The Republic, bk. 10, sct. 617.)
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. (Plat
o (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Theatetus, 155 D....)
They will take a state and human nature for their tablet, and begin by making a
clean surface. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 501 A....)

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man.... No stu
dy, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. (Plato (c. 427-347 B
.C.), Greek philosopher. Socrates, in The Republic, bk. 7, sct. 536.)
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which childre
n first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of vi
rtue. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Socrates, in The Republic, bk
. 2, sct. 378.)
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of ever
y reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information n
ever flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real
nature of good he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world. (Plato (c. 4
27-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Socrates, in The Republic, bk. 7, sct. 532.)
Let us describe the education of our men.... What then is the education to be? P
erhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past
has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, a
nd music for the mind. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Socrates, in
The Republic, bk. 2, sect. 376.)
To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Gr
eek philosopher. Theatetus, 194 C....)
You cannot go into the same water twice. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philoso
pher. Cratylus, 402 A....)
Philosophy begins in wonder. (Plato (427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Text: The
aetetus 155d, trans. by Jowett.)
There is an ancient saying that, "Hard is the knowledge of the good." (Plato (c.
427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Cratylus, 384 A....)
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. (Plato (c. 42
7-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Theatetus, 187 E....)
I shall assume that your silence gives consent. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek
philosopher. Cratylus, 435 B....)
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. (Plato (c. 4
27-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Statesman, 264 B....)
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presenc
e, "How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it?" to whic
h he replied, "Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it,
and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master." I thought then,
as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound
repose and freedom from this and other passions. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Gree
k philosopher. Cephalus, in The Republic, bk. 1, sct. 329.)
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the di
vine. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Sophist, 254 A....)
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. (Pl
ato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Axiochus, 365 B....)
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the s
ame way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its u
ses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them
moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Socrates, in The Republic, bk. 1, s
ct. 330.)
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but t
o him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. (Pla
to (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Cephalus, in The Republic, bk. 1, sct.
329.)
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into grea
tness.... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he fir
st appears he is a protector. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Socra
tes, in The Republic, bk. 8, sct. 565.)
May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing? (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.)
, Greek philosopher. Phaedrus, 272.)
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C
.), Greek philosopher. Laches, 184 E....)
That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness. (Plato (c. 427
-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Laches, 181 B....)
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered
from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they
bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, fo
r a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until
he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. S
o long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to cha
nt in prophecy. (Plato (c. 428-348 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Ion 534a7-b6, Colle
cted Dialogues of Plato, trans. by Lane Cooper, eds. Edith Hamilton and Huntingt
on Cairns, Princeton University Press (1963).)
Thou art as Hesperus, giving new splendour to the dead. (Plato (fl. 492-347 B.C.
), Greek philosopher. To Stella (l. 3-4). . . Oxford Book of Verse in English Tr
anslation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press.)
To do injustice is the greatest of all evils. (Plato (427-347 B.C.), Greek philo
sopher. Gorgias 469c, trans. by Helmbold. This is a version of one of the famous
"Socratic paradoxes," that it is better to suffer evil than to do it.)
Thou wert the morning star among the living (Plato (fl. 492-347 B.C.), Greek phi
losopher. To Stella (l. 1). . . Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E.
K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.)
To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art. (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.
), Greek philosopher. Gorgias, 514 C....)
Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek phil
osopher. Phaedrus, 240 C....)
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