Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around read more

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness read more

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, read more

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.