The wisest have the most authority

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...

Philosophy is the highest music.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Your silence gives consent.

Your silence gives consent.

Excellent things are rare.

Excellent things are rare.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege...

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege...

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed...

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed...

Democracy passes into despotism.

Democracy passes into despotism.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is...

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is...

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust...

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust...

Justice is having and doing what is one's own

Justice is having and doing what is one's own

And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and...

And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and...

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust...

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust...

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Even the gods love jokes.

Even the gods love jokes.

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every...

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every...

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my...

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my...