Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
The god is the beautiful..
The first and the best victory is to conquer self..
Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise..
Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value..
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which ar….
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he..
Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done..
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch..
People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them..
You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year..
Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?.
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side..
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man..
He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit..
The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort..
Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. .….
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, i….
When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that w….
Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" b….
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails..