Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded |
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power. |
There are three arts which are concerned with all things; one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them |
There are three classes of men - lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain |
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. |
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. |
There is no such thing as a lover's oath. |
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. |
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. |
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not. |
They certainly give very strange names to diseases. |
They deem him the worst enemy who tells them the truth |
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. |
They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave |
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself |