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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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