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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Man - a being in search of meaning.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
The wisest have the most authority.
Philosophy is the highest music.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
The good is the beautiful.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Knowledge is true opinion.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
I would fain grow old learning many things.
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