That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with… — Plato Copy Share Image
Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to… — Plato Copy Share Image
For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have… — Plato Copy Share Image
The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large,… — Plato Copy Share Image
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. — Plato Copy Share Image
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their… — Plato Copy Share Image
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change… — Plato Copy Share Image
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do… — Plato Copy Share Image
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline… — 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
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
A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers. — Plato Copy Share Image
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness… — Plato Copy Share Image
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The… — Plato Copy Share Image
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic… — Plato Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — Plato Copy Share Image
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent… — Plato Copy Share Image
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or… — 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
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble. — Plato Copy Share Image
... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,… — 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
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
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized… — 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
Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity? — Plato Copy Share Image
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the… — Plato Copy Share Image
I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense… — 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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