For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of ….

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed f….

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in f….

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody..

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot..

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just d….

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty..

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be de….

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends..

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base..

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clear….

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts..

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness..

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated..

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy..

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop wit….

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek t….

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt..