For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Love is a serious mental disease.
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.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the man becoming in that communion, the friend of Go...
You're my Star, a stargazer too,
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
He was a wise man who invented God.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is con...
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend...
[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.