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- Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
- We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far…
- Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
- No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
- The wisest have the most authority.
- The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
- Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
- Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
- Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
- Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings…
- Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the…
- In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still…
- These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike…
- Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens,…
- That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in…
- Science is nothing but perception.
- Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all…
- Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest,…
- The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
- The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
- Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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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
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- 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
- [Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our… — Erwin Schrodinger
- 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