Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
That which is excellent endures.
A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.
When the looms spin by themselves, we’ll have no need for slaves.
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.
It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.
Selfishness doesn’t consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.