Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.
All men, well interrogated, answer well.
Pleasure is the bait of sin
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.
Love is a grave mental illness.
We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
The good is the beautiful.
Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.
Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.
"Arguments, like men, are often pretenders."
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