Plato quotes.

“I would have girls and boys learn the same things, dress the same, and have the same manners.”

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”

“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”

“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”

“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”

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

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

“The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.”

“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”

“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”

“There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”

“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”

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

“Courage is a kind of salvation.”

“They certainly give very strange names to diseases.”

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

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”

“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

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

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.”

“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”

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

“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”