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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 Quotes)
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income (Plato Quotes)
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing (Plato Quotes)
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best (Plato Quotes)
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it (Plato Quotes)
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction (Plato Quotes)
When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one (Plato Quotes)
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others (Plato Quotes)
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction (Plato Quotes)
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom (Plato Quotes)
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation (Plato Quotes)
The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old (Plato Quotes)
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge (Plato Quotes)
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him (Plato Quotes)
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen (Plato Quotes)
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit (Plato Quotes)
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name (Plato Quotes)
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power (Plato Quotes)
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another (Plato Quotes)
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege (Plato Quotes)
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life (Plato Quotes)
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them (Plato Quotes)
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself (Plato Quotes)
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one (Plato Quotes)
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it (Plato Quotes)
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them (Plato Quotes)
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine (Plato Quotes)
Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied (Plato Quotes)
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe (Plato Quotes)
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated (Plato Quotes)