Plato

Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period (400 BC) in Ancient Greece and founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

He is considered the pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and Western philosophy

Plato said "If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." and repeated that sentiment with "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." So, Plato and Plutarch and Polybius and Peter warned that our covetous practices would make us surety for debt and little more than human resources. Repentance was thinking a different way and faith was the compulsion of the heart that made us persevere in that other way.

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ― Plato

“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

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ― Plato

“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

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ― Plato

“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

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” ― Plato, The Republic

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

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws” ― Plato

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.” ― Plato

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.” ― Plato

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” ― Plato, The Republic

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

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...” ― Plato, The Symposium

“There is truth in wine and children” ― Plato, The Symposium

“Those who tell the stories rule society.” ― Plato

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

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings” ― Plato

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.” ― Plato

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.” ― Plato

“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

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

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.” ― Plato

“You should not honor men more than truth.” ― Plato

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