For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
—Plato
I do believe the best definition of man is that he is the eternally ungrateful biped.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
—Plato
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
—Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
—Plato
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
—Plato
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
—Plato
All thinking men are atheists.
—Ernest Hemingway
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
—Plato
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
—Plato
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
—Plato
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
—Plato
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
—Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
—Plato
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
—Plato
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.
—Plato
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
—Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
—Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Plato
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
—Plato
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
—Socrates
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
—Socrates
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
—Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
—Socrates
The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow.
—Socrates
A man should enquire about that which he does not know.
—Socrates
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.
It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
—Socrates
It is fear and terror that makes all men brave, except the philosophers.
—Socrates
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man
—Immanuel Kant