In the mood for some soul food

“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



“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
Plato quote



“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.”
Plato quote



“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another”
Plato quote



“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”
Plato quote



“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”
Plato quote




“Courage is a kind of salvation.”
Plato quote




“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to
administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest
physician, or the most eloquent one.”
Plato quote





“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life”
Plato quote




“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge”
Plato quote


“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
Plato quote




“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 quote



“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up
being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato quote




“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what
amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the
peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
Plato quote



“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals”
Plato quote



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




“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a
dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”
Plato quote




“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
Plato quote




“Man - a being in search of meaning.”
Plato quote



“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning”
Plato quote

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say
something.”
Plato quote




“Love is a serious mental disease.”
Plato quote



“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it”
Plato quote




“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or
they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
Plato quote



“It is only the dead who have seen the end of war”
Plato quote



“No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.”
Plato quote



“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who
wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato quote




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



“He whom love touches not walks in darkness”
Plato quote



“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
Plato quote

Can't get enough of Marina and The Diamonds!