Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them..
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by y….
Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and w….
We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, w….
The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be..
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality..
He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced ….
From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they fu….
When there is crime in society, there is no justice..
He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even….
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless..
Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fo….
No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. ….
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued..
Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn..
No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love.
To a good man nothing that happens is evil..
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers….
Ignorance: the root of all evil..
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but ra….