Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do..
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….
Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors.
When the music changes, the walls of the city shake..
Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men..
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it..
The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spir….
I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times..
A work well begun is half-ended..
The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion..
For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson..
No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness..
If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the excl….
The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect..
Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people..
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power..
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul..
Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth]..
If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection..
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself..