As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions...
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Then not only an old man but also a drunkard becomes a second time a child.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Science is nothing but perception.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much but...
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till...
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end...
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the...
Philosophy is the highest music.
States are as the men they grow out of human characters.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of...
When men speak ill of thee live so as nobody may believe them.
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom lovers of honor and lovers...
A hero is born among a hundred a wise man is found among a thousand but an...
Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to...
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...
Love is a serious mental disease.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
It is a common saying and in everybody's mouth that life is but a sojourn.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of...
Life must be lived as play.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it...
I would fain grow old learning many things.
We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Knowledge is true opinion.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The learning and knowledge that we have is at the most but little compared...
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil and is far from being...
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind...
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the...
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat which is the combat of...
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their...
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet...
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.