... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brilliance.

— Plato

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

— Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

— Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

— Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

— Plato

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

— Plato

You're my Star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were Heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you!

— Plato

You should not honor men more than truth.

— Plato