Plato

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

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

“Courage is a kind of salvation.”

“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.”

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

“They certainly give very strange names to diseases.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”

“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”

“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”

“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”

“There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”

“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”

“Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.”

“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”