He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
PlatoOne of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PlatoRemember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
PlatoThe most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
PlatoWe are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.
Plato