Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Too much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slavery, both for private man and city.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — Plato Copy Share Image
“For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says,… — Plato Copy Share Image
They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and… — Plato Copy Share Image
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we… — Plato Copy Share Image
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals — Plato Copy Share Image
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison. — Plato Copy Share Image
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. — Plato Copy Share Image
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign… — Plato Copy Share Image
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share Image
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share Image
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share Image
