Plato

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

"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one."

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

"Ideas are the source of all things"

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

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"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."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

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

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

"Writing is the geometry of the soul."

"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."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"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."

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

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"You should not honor men more than truth."

"He was a wise man who invented God."