Quotes

“Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.” Plato

“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.” Plato

“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.” Plato

“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are” Plato

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” Plato

“It is right to give every man his due.” Plato

“They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.” Plato

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

“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good” Plato

“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?” Plato

“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.” Plato

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.” Plato

“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.” Plato

“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.” Plato

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

“To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.” Plato

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

“When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.” Plato

“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.” Plato

“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.” Plato

“The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.” Plato

“Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.” Plato

“The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.” Plato

“Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.” Plato

“We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.” Plato

“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.” Plato

“Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.” Plato

“To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.” Plato

“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.” Plato

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