... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor. — Plato Copy Share Image
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. — Plato Copy Share Image
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. — Plato Copy Share Image
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble. — Plato Copy Share Image
“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)” — 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
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. — Plato Copy Share Image
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. — Plato Copy Share Image
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. — Plato Copy Share Image
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those… — Plato Copy Share Image
Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most… — Plato Copy Share Image
“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of… — Plato Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we… — Plato Copy Share Image
“In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men?… — Plato Copy Share Image
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When… — Plato Copy Share Image
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against… — Plato Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule… — Plato Copy Share Image
“those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they… — Plato Copy Share Image
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to takepart in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. — Plato Copy Share Image
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse… — Plato Copy Share Image
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! — Plato Copy Share Image
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals… — Plato Copy Share Image
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or… — Plato Copy Share Image
“...[T]he right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good… — 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
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — 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
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only… — 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
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![“Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f79/plato-103_action_those-who-are-not-schooled-and-practised_1210851.jpg)
