There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Plato

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato

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.
Plato

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.
Plato

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato

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.
Plato

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Plato

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Plato

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Plato

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.
Plato

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.
Plato