下面摘选出柏拉图的20句名言，希望这位伟大哲人的思想能激励我们奋斗不息。

　　1 The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

　　Victory:胜利

　　Conquer:征服；战胜

　　Vile:可鄙的；

　　2. To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

　　Educated:有教养的

　　Disciplined:训练有素的；有纪律的

　　3. Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

　　Rhetoric:修辞学

　　4. Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

　　Affair:事情；事件

　　Anxiety:焦虑

　　5. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

　　Exhort:勉励；劝诫

　　Combat:战斗

　　Earthly:世俗的

　　Conflict:冲突；争斗

　　6. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

　　Accident:偶然

　　7. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

　　Neglect:

　　Lame:瘸腿的

　　8. It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

　　Sojourn:(书面语)逗留

　　9. Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

　　Acquire:获取

　　Compulsion: 强迫

　　10. Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

　　Amazement:惊奇； 动词amaze

　　11. No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

　　Ordinance:命令

　　12. He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

　　Disposition:性情；气质

　　13. All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

　　Superior:优良的；高级的

　　Meddle:干涉

　　Occupation:职业

　　14. Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

　　prosperous: 富足的；繁荣的；

　　Abundant:充裕的

　　Cultivation:耕耘； 动词 cultivate

　　15. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

　　Astronomy:天文学

　　Compel:促使；驱使

　　16. Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

　　Hindrance:阻碍

　　17. Courage is a kind of salvation.

　　salvation:救赎；拯救

　　18. For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

　　Nurture:培养

　　Implant:注入

　　Constitution:性格；素质

　　19. People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

　　Nourish:滋养

　　Stunt:阻碍

　　Wilt:凋零

　　20. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

　　Bequeath:遗赠

　　Reverence:尊敬