Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods..
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the natu….
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety..
'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with t….
Every man is a poet when he is in love..
Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake..
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the nec….
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help….
Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one..
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when th….
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produc….
We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection..
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of t….
The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greate….
The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice..
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and order….
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, ….
Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence..
An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man..
God ever geometrizes..
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires..