I know that I know nothing
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a lea...
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I...
For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest go...
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
It is right to give every man his due.
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.
Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the co...
All is flux, nothing stays still
Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!
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 be...
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handl...
Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the sam...