Knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: knowledge learning education wisdom soul self-improvement self-nurture growth spirituality growth change

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honours, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honourable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
Plato The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love character integrity principles values life guidance

"But can you persuade us, if we refuse to listen to you?" he said.
"Certainly not," replied Glaucon.
"Then we are not going to listen; of that you can be assured."
Plato The Republic
Categories: stubbornness stubborness listen listening change speech words communication understanding wisdom relationship parenting

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Plato The Republic
Categories: sensuality conversation thought wisdom aging body age friendship debate talk

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness relationships friendship attitude responsibility choice depression sadness unhappiness

...grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
Plato A Grateful Heart
Categories: soul spirituality inner beauty possessions materialism wealth wisdom

...a friend ought always to do good to a friend and never evil.
Plato The Republic
Categories: friendships relationships

...Love is that divinity who creates peace among men, repose and sleep in sadness. Love divests us of all alienation from each other, and fills our vacant hearts with overflowing sympathy...
Plato The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love peace relationships compassion

Excellent things are rare.
Plato Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: excellence

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato The Republic
Categories: body

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato Dialogues, Apology
Categories: evil

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Plato The Republic
Categories: immortality

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato Dialogues, Phaedo
Categories: lies

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
Plato The Republic
Categories: light

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato The Republic
Categories: mathematics

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato Dialogues, Theatetus
Categories: opinions

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato
Categories: progress

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato The Republic
Categories: taxes

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato The Republic
Categories: wealth