“You should not honor men more than truth.” 

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” 

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ” 

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.” 

“A house that has a library in it has a soul.” 

“Necessity is the mother of invention.” 

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” 

“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.” 

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” 

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” 

“Character is simply habit long continued.” 

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder” 

“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.” 

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.” 

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.” 

“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.” 

“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.” 

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ” 

“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.” 

“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.” 

“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.” 

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.” 

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ” 

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning” 

“Writing is the geometry of the soul. ” 

“Love is the pursuit of the whole.” 

“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.” 

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.” 

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.” 

“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.” 

Nothing beautiful without struggle.” 

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

Just close your eyes—and think of England.

Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

“The first and best victory is to conquer self” 

“To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates” 

“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?” 

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.” 

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” 

“True friendship can exist only between equals.” 

“Man is a being in search of meaning.” 

“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.” 

“The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.” 

“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”