Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Topics: Plato Quotes

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Even the gods love jokes

Even the gods love jokes

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Excellent things are rare.

Excellent things are rare.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,...

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,...

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are...

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are...

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to...

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to...

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be...

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be...

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what...

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what...

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a...

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a...

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a...

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a...

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into...

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into...

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.