Plato
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

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.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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

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

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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