Plato

“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”

“Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”

“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”

“The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.”

“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 a kind of salvation.”

“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”

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

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”

“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”

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

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”

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

“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”

“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.”

“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”

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

“I would fain grow old learning many things.”

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