The Wisdom of Plato

• The learning and knowledge that we have is , at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

• Self-conquest is the greatest of all victories.

• All knowledge that is divorced from justice must be called cunning rather than wisdom.

• The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

• It is expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

• If I were sure God would pardon me, and men would not know my sin, yet I should be ashamed to sin, because of its essential baseness.

• Better be unbron than untaught, for ignorance is that root of misfortune.

• A philosopher is one who desires to discern the truth.

• When men speak ill of you , live so as nobldy may believe them.