Plato

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

"The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs."

"Light is the shadow of god"

"Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes... The power to learn is present in everyone's soul and...the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body... Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively be made to do it. it isn't the craft of putting sight into the soul. Education take for granted that sight is there but that it isn't turned the right way or looking where it ought to look, and it tries to redirect it appropriately."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

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

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

"No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself"

"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning"

"All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes."

"All is flux, nothing stays still"

"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)"

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader."

"good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"

"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."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."