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Evil Quotes by Plato

51 Evil quotes by Plato

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Plato warns that careless language can plant evil in souls and that discord breeds vice while harmony embodies virtue. He describes wrongdoing as the worst evil and links social harm to interference among classes. His thoughts blend moral philosophy with the fear of death as an ultimate evil.

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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Ignorance: the root of all evil.

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“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

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No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we…

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

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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest…

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“The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil.”

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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

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The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much…

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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know…

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils,…

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Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no…

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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and…

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if…

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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil…

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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until…

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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of…

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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the…

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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury…

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“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he…

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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness…

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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of…

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For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other…

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“["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of…

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading: Henny Youngman. He was a wise man who invented beer

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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