More quotes by Plato

"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"
"He was a wise man who invented God."
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent."
"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."