Plato

"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."

"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."

"You should not honor men more than truth."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"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."

"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

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

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."