, PLATO : Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

, PLATO : Only the dead have seen the end of war. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

, PLATO : We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

, PLATO : Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

, PLATO : He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

, PLATO : Necessity, who is the mother of our invention. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

, PLATO : Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

, PLATO : Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 – 348/347 B.C.E.)

, PLATO : I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 – 348/347 B.C.E.)

, PLATO : States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 – 348/347 B.C.E.)

, PLATO : Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 – 348/347 B.C.E.)