Meredith Mcguire

“for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.”
― Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates

“A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.”
― Plato

“Appearance tyrannizes over truth.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.”
― Plato, The Symposium