The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too w...
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.