Plato Quotes

“Compared with the Egyptians, the Greeks are childish mathematicians.”

“Justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt.”

″‘Hope,’ he says, ‘cherishes the soul of him who lives in justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey;—hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man.‘”

“Today Plato is nearly forgotten. His beliefs include the notion that people who govern should be intelligent, rational, self-controlled, and in love with wisdom, an idea that has long been discredited.”