Quotes from Ancient Times
Plato 428 ~ 347 BC, Greek Philosopher
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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.
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Friends have all things in common.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Memorable Quotes
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Insightful Quotes cards
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
There is no such thing as a lover's oath.
Science is nothing but perception.
The wisest have the most authority.