Plato

“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”

“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.”

“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”

“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”

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

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”

“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric....But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art--he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”

“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”

“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.”

“The wisest have the most authority.”

“We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.”

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”

“הדרך הבטוחה ביותר לאפיון כולל של הפילוסופיה האירופאית היא לתאר אותה כמורכבת מסדרה של הערות שוליים לאפלטון.”