Plato

"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."

"Life must be lived as play."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

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

"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."

"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."

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

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"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."

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

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

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

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"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 direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"

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

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

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."