Plato

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

"The measure of a person is what they do with power."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"The prison-house is the body; the prisoner is the soul."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light."

"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception."

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"The heaviest thing to carry is a grudge."

"Do not train a child to learn by force and harshness, but by play."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."

"Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in understanding."

"The penalty that good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"A lie is spoken in words, but a greater lie is told by silence."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing."

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"Excess of freedom leads to excess of slavery."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"The true creative cycle is to take things apart and to put them back together."

"Justice in the life and actions of the state is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."

"There is no greater evil than lack of understanding."

"The punishment of dishonest people is not in the laws of man, but in the loss of their own souls."