Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he f….
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be ….
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine..
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding..
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not..
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well..
Do not expect justice where might is right..
And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine.
When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself..
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown..
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing ….
Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void….
As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes b….
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making grac….
There is truth in wine and children.
No one ever dies an atheist..
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases..
The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy….
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea..
Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man..
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be ta….