"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

"A hero is born among a hundred a wise man is found among a thousand but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."

"If a man neglects education he walks lame to the end of his life."

"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."

"The good is the beautiful."

"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat which is the combat of life and greater than every other earthly conflict."

"There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till philosophers become kings in this world or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."

"Better a little which is well done than a great deal imperfectly."

"States are as the men they grow out of human characters."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"It is a common saying and in everybodys mouth that life is but a sojourn."

"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."

"The learning and knowledge that we have is at the most but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."

"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"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 as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy just and wise."

"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods and of every good to man."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"One man cannot practice many arts with success."

"Knowledge is true opinion."

"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

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

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."

"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class."

"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"Any man may easily do harm but not every man can do good to another."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction whether it be in the seasons or in individuals or in governments."

"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."

"Life must be lived as play."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge."

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation the man of manly character and of wisdom."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

"Love is the joy of the good the wonder of the wise the amazement of the Gods."

"Courage is a kind of salvation."

"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 of gain."

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

"Know one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good."

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune."

"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."

"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things but only what is just whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men."

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind for thus the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"All men are by nature equal made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

"Theres a victory and defeat the first and best of victories the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another but of himself."

"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."

"No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

"Then not only custom but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice and that justice is equality."

"Then not only an old man but also a drunkard becomes a second time a child."

"Love is a serious mental disease."

"I would fain grow old learning many things."

"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."

"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."

"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence."

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

"Justice means minding ones own business and not meddling with other mens concerns."

"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."

"We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning accompanied with ill bringing-up are far more fatal."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."

"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."

"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."

"Democracy... is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."

"Attention to health is lifes greatest hindrance."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws."

"Twice and thrice over as they say good is it to repeat and review what is good."