More quotes by Plato

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
"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."
"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."
"He was a wise man who invented God."
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."