Quotes

“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.” Plato

“A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.” Plato

“Your silence gives consent.” Plato

“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.” Plato

“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.” Plato

“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.” Plato

“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.” Plato

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” Plato

“Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.” Plato

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Plato

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” Plato

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” Plato

“There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.” Plato

“Philosophy begins in wonder.” Plato

“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.” Plato

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

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.” Plato

“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.” Plato

“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.” Plato

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

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

“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.” Plato

“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.” Plato

“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.” Plato

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Plato

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” Plato

“Man - a being in search of meaning.” Plato

“The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.” Plato

“Science is nothing but perception.” Plato

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