But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
PlatoWealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
PlatoFew men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.
PlatoAnd first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.
Plato