States Quotes by Plato

The God of Love lives in a state of need.

— Plato

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change…

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do…

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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign…

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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic…

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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized…

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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the…

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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the…

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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…

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For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired…

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When…

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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most…

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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And…

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That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with…

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For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have…

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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean…

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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of…

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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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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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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,…

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... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible,…

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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the…

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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense…

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Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to…

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or…

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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent…

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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The…

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The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second,…

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Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large,…

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Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline…

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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their…

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