Plato Quotes

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

Evil gains work their punishment.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.