Plato

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

“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.”

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

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

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

“Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.”

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”

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

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.”