Plato

"The criminal who appears before the judge is to the criminal who escapes as ill fortune to good fortune."

"The mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled."

"Everything flows, nothing stays still."

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

"The state comes into existence for the sake of life; it continues to exist for the sake of a good life."

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."

"The task then is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"The untrained mind will always come to unjust conclusions."

"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there ceases to be any question between wisdom and foolishness."

"To love one that is good is akin to religion."

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."

"Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will have no value if we do not use them to make human life better."

"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

"Wonder at the multitude of the great and wise is the appropriate state of a philosopher."

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

"Youth is the appropriate season for education."

"Absolute beauty requires the marriage of the beautiful outside with a beautiful within."

"All learning has an emotional base."

"Better to be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

"Courage is a kind of salvation."

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

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction."

"For good nurture and education implant goodness, whereas a destitute education implants badness."

"Goodness is something chosen, an act of the will."

"He who is not a good master cannot be a good servant."

"Happiness is activity of the soul in accordance with virtue."