Society and the World

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.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Knowledge is true opinion.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Science is nothing but perception.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.