Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
-- Plato
The life that is unexamined is not worth living.
-- Plato
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
-- Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
-- Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world
to another.
-- Plato
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge
which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
-- Plato
Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and
disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
-- Plato
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the
colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
-- Plato
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
-- Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
-- Plato
And what is good, Phaedrus? And what is not good? Need we ask anyone
to tell us these things?
-- Plato [Symposium]
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
-- Plato
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.
-- Plato
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat
of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
-- Plato
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
-- Plato
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with
are the greatest babblers.
-- Plato
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
-- Plato
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
-- Plato
The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things
the wrong way.
-- Plato
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
-- Plato
He was a wise man who invented God.
-- Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-- Plato
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.
-- Plato
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
-- Socrates
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
--Socrates 469-399 BC
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
-- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Socrates
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid
undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
-- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is
known how he employs it.
-- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
-- Socrates
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with
what he would like to have.
-- Socrates
I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
-- Socrates
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone
must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their
own and depart.
-- Socrates
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
-- Socrates' last words
