Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is ….
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class..
The life which is not examined is not worth living..
Only the dead have seen the end of war..
Do thine own work, and know thyself..
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education..
Man's greatest victory is over oneself..
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison..
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful..
Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly..
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink..
Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule..
Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?.
You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He ha….
Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing..
At the touch of love, everyone is a poet..
He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing..
The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless..
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it..
The race of the guardians must be kept pure..
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers..