Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man..
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand..
We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him an….
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it….
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing w….
Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul..
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility..
Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation..
I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the….
May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me..
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'.
Philosophy is the highest music..
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone….
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?.
What is honored in a country will be cultivated there..
Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of ….
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are..
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated..
Love: a grave mental disease..
Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness..
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enoug….