Love is a serious mental disease.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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...
The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.
All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.
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, an...
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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.
He was a wise man who invented God.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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.
You're my Star, a stargazer too,
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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...
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...
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...