Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates..
The proud man is forsaken of God..
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless..
To do wrong is the greatest of evils..
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake..
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city..
For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives..
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an h….
Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake..
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony..
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then….
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil..
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping..
And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?.
I have good hope that there is something after death..
Adultery is the injury of nature..
No human thing is of serious importance..
Courage is knowing what to fear..
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it..
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth..
When there is crime in society, there is no justice..