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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing discourse as ambiguous, elliptical, or involving special idioms, we should not so construe it.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers