Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

— Plato

Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

— Plato

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

— Plato

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

— Plato

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

— Plato

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

— Plato

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

— Plato

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! To escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

— Plato