"The beginning is the most important part...for..." - Quote by Plato

“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.”

“From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.”

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

“I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.”

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.”

“The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.”

“When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.”

“The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.”