Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another do….
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power..
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human n….
God is not the author of all things, but of good only..
Truth is its own reward..
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal..
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics..
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 t….
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction..
The right question is usually more important than the right answer..
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind..
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs;….
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an a….
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue..
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain..
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income..
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil..
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil..
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality..
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty..
Self conquest is the greatest of victories..