The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
There is safety in numbers.
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.
We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
Every realm of nature is marvelous.
I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Criticism is something we can avoid easilyby saying nothing, doing nothing,and being nothing.
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.
The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.
Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.
Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.
The sun is new each day.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
All I know is that I do not know anything
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.
A man who has been in danger,When he comes out of it forgets his fears,And sometimes he forgets his promises.
It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.
