Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.

A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

There is truth in wine and children

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric....But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art--he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them.

Justice is useful when money is useless.