Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 384 Bc Death: 322 Bc
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain.
The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency….
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public educa….
A true friend is one soul in two bodies..
All things are full of gods..
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from ….
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other..
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail..
Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies..
The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and mor….
Happiness is a sort of action..
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in gove….
Teaching is the highest form of understanding..
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (….
All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth..
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet..
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice..
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had..
The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods..
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the p….
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless..