There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen..

There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So av….

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed..

Geometry draws the soul towards truth..

Abstinence is the surety of temperance..

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men..

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils..

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil..

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility..

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will..

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness..

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people..

Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but wha….

Beauty is a natural superiority..

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice..

No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. ….

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another..

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and….

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.

The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with the….

Wine fills the heart with courage..