That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed. — Plato Copy Share Image
.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities… — Plato Copy Share Image
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of… — Plato Copy Share Image
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato Copy Share Image
'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in… — 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