Plato on Stoicism Quotes

"Virtue is not given by money, but from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private."

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"The first and greatest victory is to conquer oneself; to be conquered by oneself is of all things most shameful and vile."

"Character is simply habit long continued."

"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."

"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."

"Wisdom alone is the true coin with which we ought to exchange all other things."

"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."

"To suffer injustice is a lesser evil than to commit it."

"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 measure of a man is what he does with power."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

"Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent."

"The most important part of education is right training in the nursery."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"He who is of a 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."

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

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

"No human thing is of serious importance."

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

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

"A state is what it is because its citizens are what they are."