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- Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they…
- Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which…
- They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
- Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
- Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
- They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
- Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done…
- Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
- The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
- For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without…
- There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
- All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with…
- In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we…
- For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their…
- States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
- Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
- Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
- We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to…
- The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at…
- Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
- There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
- Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
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- A well begun is half ended. — A. C. Benson
- After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference… — Joseph Parker
- Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.' — Owen Wister
- This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert
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- But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and… — George Herbert
- The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated. — John Desmond Bernal
- Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. — Isaac Newton
- Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon