Plato

"The god of war is always impartial."

"There is in every one of us a spark of the divine fire."

"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

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

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

"When men speak ill of you, live so that nobody will believe them."

"Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

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

"The lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it leads."

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."

"Beware of the barrenness of a busy life."

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."

"No man willingly chooses evil."

"Astronomy compels the soul upward."

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."

"The prison of this world is the condition of the soul."

"Wealth is the means to an end, not the end itself."

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

"The man who is really good can never grow sad."

"Artistic activity is the only way to approach truth."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"Everything that the mind can conceive can be achieved."

"The human soul is inextinguishable and eternal."

"Whoever controls the food supply controls the people."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."