Plato

Love is a serious mental disease.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.