Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
There is truth in wine and children
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy...
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain.
All learning has an emotional base.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spi...
Ideas are the source of all things
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may requir...
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assi...