Plato

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”

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

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save and preserve it.”

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

“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.”

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

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

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