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- No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
- No human thing is of serious importance.
- Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
- Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
- But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
- And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then…
- Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet…
- The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
- When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
- Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to…
- Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered…
- Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the…
- Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this…
- And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and…
- And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are…
- When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
- Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives…
- The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though…
- Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
- God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
- For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not…
- The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour,…
- A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
- For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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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