"Remember our words, then, and whatever is..." - Quote by Plato

“You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.”

“...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.”

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

“Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.”

“It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.”

“Still constant is a wondrous excellence.”

“One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'”

“Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.”

“Art to be art must soothe.”