Plato

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Plato on informed decision-making.

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.

Plato on achieving excellence.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato on the importance of starting well.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be rul...

Plato on the responsibility to lead.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no...

Plato on the nature of learning.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched tha...

Plato on the effects of committing injustice.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affai...

Plato on the cost of indifference.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato on the value of simplicity.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Plato on the reception of truth.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in pol...

Plato on political engagement.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato on the essence of courage.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato on the source of evil.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder bat...

Plato on the unseen struggles of others.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato on the transformative power of love.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act respon...

Plato on the nature of goodness.