More quotes by Plato

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent."
"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."
"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."
"He was a wise man who invented God."
"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."