Your silence gives consent.

Topics: Plato Quotes

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it...

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it...

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if...

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if...

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

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

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...

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a...

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a...

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned...

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned...

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than...

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than...

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the...

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the...