Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness..
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of….
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil i….
The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use..
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death..
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls..
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might h….
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul..
To do wrong is the greatest of evils..
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in ….
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have be….
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil i….
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direct….
Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back..
For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but o….
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self..
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil..
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement..
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents….
Let brother help brother..
Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee..