Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse..
As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness..
You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul..
And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge ….
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is n….
It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice..
Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in w….
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet..
The prisoner grows to love his chains..
As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas..
The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realitie….
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our el….
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop wit….
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention..
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself..
Beauty is a natural superiority..
Love is a severe mental disorder..
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge..
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service..
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent..