"When I hear a man discoursing of..." - Quote by Plato

“Self conquest is the greatest of victories.”

“Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.”

“Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.”

“Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.”

“And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.”

“No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.”

“It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.”

“Don't judge your taco by its price”

“Those who know when it is enough will not perish.”