Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato Copy Share Image
If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange. — Plato Copy Share Image
It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible. — Plato Copy Share Image
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato Copy Share Image
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge. — Plato Copy Share Image
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. — Plato Copy Share Image
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth. — Plato Copy Share Image
...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And… — Plato Copy Share Image
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth… — Plato Copy Share Image
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll… — Plato Copy Share Image
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects… — Plato Copy Share Image
People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars… — Plato Copy Share Image
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the… — Plato Copy Share Image
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at… — Plato Copy Share Image
. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who… — Plato Copy Share Image
The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people… — Plato Copy Share Image
We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that… — Plato Copy Share Image
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now… — Plato Copy Share Image
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often… — Plato Copy Share Image
People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't. — Plato Copy Share Image
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato Copy Share Image
... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible... — Plato Copy Share Image
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power. — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men… — Plato Copy Share
