"Thinking: the soul talking to itself."
-- Plato"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
-- Plato"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
-- Plato"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
-- Plato"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
-- Plato"There is no learning without remembering."
-- Socrates"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."
-- Socrates"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."
-- Socrates"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
-- Socrates"How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him?"
-- Socrates"In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine."
-- Socrates"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
-- Socrates"Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods."
-- Socrates"The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul."
-- Socrates"Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth."
-- Socrates"Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise."
-- Socrates"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
-- Socrates"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
-- Socrates"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
-- Socrates"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."
-- Plato"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
-- Socrates"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."
-- Socrates"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
-- Socrates"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
-- Socrates