Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods..
For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is igno….
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but….
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….
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet,….
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil..
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice..
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way..
The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see ….
It is impossible to conceive of many without one..
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons ….
The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselv….
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war.
The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only….
Only the dead will know the end of the war..
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know..
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child..
I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows..
Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot..