Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?.
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity..
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery..
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themse….
He who love touches walks not in darkness..
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself..
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matte….
The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which ….
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation..
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with it….
Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it..
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing f….
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life..
Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.
We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it i….
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge..
You cannot go into the same water twice..
The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise..
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the….
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political po….