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Plato Quotes - Page 26

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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

Justice, Stronger, Principles

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.221, Xist Publishing

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

Men, Law, Acting

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

Pain, Balance, Action

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

Law, Citizens, Care

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

Food, Cooking, Peppers

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

Strong, Noble, Clarity

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

Truth, Numbers, Quality

Plato (1956). “The Republic”

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

Men, Law, Sound

Epistulae, 8. 354e (translated by R G Bury,1925).

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Plato, Math, Science

Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.1375, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Suffering, Injustice, Reproach

Plato, G. M. A. Grube (1992). “Republic (Grube Edition)”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

Inspiration, Men, Blessing

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

Men, Cities, Tree

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Inspirational, Life, Lambs

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1666, Delphi Classics

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Love Is, Names, Desire

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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Wise, Wisdom, Mean

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

Physicians, Patient

All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

Moving, Soul, Doe

Only the dead will know the end of the war.

Military, War, Army

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Refuse, Inferiors

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Men, Argument, Pretender

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.72, Cosimo, Inc.

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

Darkness, Walks

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.324, Cosimo, Inc.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Plato, Honor, Noble

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Stars, Eye, Heaven

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Family, Children, Plato

Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

Happiness, Wise, Love Is

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.513

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