Plato

Socrates: As for myself, Lysimachus and Melesias, I am the first to confess that I have never had a teacher of the art of virtue (Laches)

Gifts To Buy Your Boyfriend For Valentine’s Day - epphany.com/site/post/441?…

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue -

Socrates: The thought that the beautiful is not good pleases me least of all the things we have said (HippiasMajor)

Athenian Stranger: No government... exercises a voluntary rule over voluntary subjects, but may be truly called states of discord (Laws8)

Socrates: A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants (Statesman)

Socrates: only the philosopher who departs pure is permitted to enter the company of the gods (Phaedo)

We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

Socrates: And who could take up arms against such a great army having Homer for its general, and not appear ridiculous? (Theaetetus)

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

Socrates: either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or there is a change and migration of the soul (Apology)

Socrates: It is impossible that God should ever be willing to change - every god remains absolutely and for ever in his own form (Republic)

Socrates: The soul which has never seen the truth will never be re-incarnated into the human form (Republic)

Socrates:The mass of mankind would not decline to accept a tyranny... or many numerous things which cause more harm than good (Alcibiades2)

Athenian Stranger: Our ideas of justice are in the highest degree confused and contradictory (Laws9)

Socrates: Sitting, walking, running, sailing; or, again, wood, stones, and the like - these things are neither good nor evil (Gorgias)

Socrates: The cause, then, is not the cause of the cause, but of that which comes into being through it (Phaedo)

Socrates: By the powers, Euthyphro! how little does the common herd know of the nature of right and truth (Euthyphro)

No man of intelligence will venture to express his philosophical views in language, especially in language that is unchangeable (7thLetter)

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.