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.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
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.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
There's 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.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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.
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
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.
