Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
I have good hope that there is something after death..
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence..
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments..
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory..
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences..
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men..
For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beaut….
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent..
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's bu….
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases..
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with h….
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary..
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men..
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such….
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be ac….
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous ….
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself..
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it..
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth..
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of th….