Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state..
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god..
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning..
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them..
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things ….
Geometry existed before creation..
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths a….
The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed..
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws..
To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories..
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception..
To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible..
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake..
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return..
Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways..
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination..
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom..
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim….
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 zea….
Better a good enemy than a bad friend..
Love is a serious mental disease..