Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Time is the moving image of eternity.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
To be is to do.
Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there...
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Light is the shadow of god
I would fain grow old learning many things.