Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them..
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants..
The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole..
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion..
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life..
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till h….
Thinking is the soul talking to itself..
Art has no end but its own perfection..
He whom Love touches not walks in darkness..
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible ….
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes ….
I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools..
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shar….
Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness..
There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of an….
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings..
There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas..
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen..
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men..
Excellent things are rare..