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.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

The wisest have the most authority.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.