Greek - Philosopher | 427 BC - 347 BC
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato
KnowledgeFoodSoulSaidSurely
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
SpeedToo MuchLittleSufferHaste
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
MeaningMust
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
GoodManMayHarmEvery ManEvery
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
SoulWorldLookEventsEveryone
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
MusicPoliticalNewImportantKind
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
MenGrowHumanOutCharacters
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
GreatWealthWellKnownComforter
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
SaidMayBenefitOftenWrongly
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
GoodTruthBeginningManTruth Is
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
ManNeverAccidentsHappeningWays
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
LearningKnowledgeIgnoranceEvil
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