Plato (427 BC- 347 BC) quotes

 

• A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
• Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
• As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
• Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
• He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
• Neccesity, the mother of invention.
• No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
• Only the dead have seen the end of war.
• The measure of a man is what he does with power.
• The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
• Your silence gives consent.