"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."
-Plato

"Never discourage anyone who continually
makes progress, no matter how slow."
-Plato

"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history."
-Plato

"When men speak ill of thee,
live so as nobody may believe them."
-Plato

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

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

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

"Let us describe the education of our men.
What then is the education to be?
Perhaps we could hardly find
a better than that which the experience
of the past has already discovered,
which consists, I believe,
in gymnastic, for the body,
and music for the mind."
-Plato

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

"The most effective kind of education is that
a child should play amongst lovely things."
-Plato

"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."
-Plato

"When the mind is thinking,
it is talking to itself."
-Plato