427-347 BC, Greek Philosopher
I have good hope that there is something after death.
Plato – [Immortality]

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato – [Learning]

In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, ''How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it?'' to which he replied, ''Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master.'' I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
Plato – [Sex]

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.

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful –in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason –and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.
Plato – [Goodness]

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
Plato – [Doctors]

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.
Plato – [Astronomy]

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato – [Death and Dying]

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato – [Knowledge]

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato – [Education]

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
Plato – [Slander]

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
Plato – [Education]

Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato – [Love]

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato – [Love]

Man is a being in search of meaning.
Plato – [Humankind]

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
Plato – [Humankind]

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato – [Music]

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