Quotes from Plato, Phaedrus

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.