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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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 curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Democracy passes into despotism.

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

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

It is right to give every man his due.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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

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

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

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.

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

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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

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.

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.

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

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

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.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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

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

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

The wisest have the most authority.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Philosophy is the highest music.

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

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.

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.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

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.

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

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Life must be lived as play.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

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

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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

Science is nothing but perception.

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

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

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

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

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