Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Wine fills the heart with courage..
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak..
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own..
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold ….
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was t….
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it..
If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies ….
To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art..
It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life..
Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would….
That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed..
He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life..
A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he….
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell..
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous..
Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls..
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue..
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues..
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after ….
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….