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One Quotes by Plato
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of…
- Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war…
- In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
- Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
- There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
- The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
- In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill...…
- The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at…
- No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
- To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens,…
- No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
- Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet…
- When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
- For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not…
- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is…
- I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
- And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of…
- Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking…
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