Written by These are some of my favorites of Plato’s quotes; Renton is not exactly Athens, but the philosophy still seems to apply.
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Necessity… the mother of invention.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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 war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Your silence gives consent.
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