Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp
We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.
Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.
For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.
The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.