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."

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

"Courage is a kind of salvation."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."

"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."

"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."

"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

"I would fain grow old learning many things."

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

"It is right to give every man his due."

"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."

"Life must be lived as play."

"Love is a serious mental disease."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"

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

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

"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."

"No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."

"One man cannot practice many arts with success."

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

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."

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

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."

"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."

"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."

"There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."

"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."

"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."