The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Plato

The good is the beautiful.
Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato

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 manly character and of wisdom.
Plato

The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Plato

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato

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

The wisest have the most authority.
Plato

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Plato

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Plato

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato

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.
Plato