PLATO

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."

"All learning has an emotional base."

"A house that has a library in it has a soul."

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."

"At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

"But Above all things truth beareth away the victory."

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

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time."

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

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

"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable."

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty"

"Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?"

"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."

"I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts."

"Ideas are the source of all things."

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

"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being."

"If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."

"No human thing is of serious importance."

"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them."

"Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."

"Love is the pursuit of the whole."

"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."

"Nothing beautiful without struggle."

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

"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"Love is a serious mental disease."