Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue..
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking t….
All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate..
All men, well interrogated, answer well..
What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true ph….
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them..
Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue..
As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead..
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one ….
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human n….
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics..
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality..
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments..
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's bu….
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary..
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such….
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous ….
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it..
The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price..
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness..
When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one..