Plato

“Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, the putting of knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes. Rather, the power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned from darkness to light without the whole body being turned.”

“The blame is his who chooses. God is blameless.”

“What provides truth to the objects of knowledge and the power of knowing to the knower is the form of the good. And though it is the cause of knowledge and truth, it is also an object of knowledge.”

“Beauty itself is alone with itself, single in nature, while all the beautiful things share in it in such a way that when others come to be or pass away, it neither grows nor diminishes nor suffers any change.”

“The soul of the philosopher thinks that it must not resist this deliverance, and so it cultivates calmness and joy and smooths the way for the deliverer.”

“We should try to escape from earth to the dwelling of the gods as quickly as we can, and to escape is to become like God, so far as this is possible; and to become like God is to become righteous and holy and wise.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”

“And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold! human beings living in an underground den, and at the entrance a fire.”

“Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide... cities will have no rest from evils.”

“He who from these ascending under the influence of true love, begins to perceive that beauty, is not far from the end. And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only.”

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

“The beginning of truth is to know the truth about ourselves.”

“The happy are happy by the possession of good things.”

“No harm can come to a good man, either in life or after death: the gods do not neglect the one who strives to be just.”

“A virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices and the lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods.”