"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
-- Plato"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."
-- Plato"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
-- Plato"Man is a being in search of meaning."
-- Plato"Love is a serious mental disease."
-- Plato"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
-- Plato"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
-- Plato"Books are immortal sons deifying their sires."
-- Plato"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."
-- Plato"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
-- Plato"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
-- Plato"Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, factually we achieve excellence by acting rightly."
-- Plato"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
-- Plato"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
-- Plato"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-- Plato"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."
-- Plato"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
-- Plato"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
-- Plato"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."
-- Socrates"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
-- Socrates"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
-- Socrates"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."
-- Socrates"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."
-- Socrates"To believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly."
-- Socrates