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important quotations for Political Science
IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. Aristotle A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Aristotle A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. Aristotle A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. Aristotle A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle All men by nature desire to know. Aristotle All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. Aristotle At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Aristotle Bad men are full of repentance. Aristotle Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. Aristotle Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. Aristotle Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. Aristotle Change in all things is sweet. Aristotle Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. Aristotle Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. Aristotle Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. Aristotle Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. Aristotle Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. Aristotle Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. Aristotle Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Aristotle Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Aristotle Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. Aristotle Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. Aristotle Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Aristotle For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. Aristotle For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. Aristotle For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. Aristotle Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle Friendship is essentially a partnership. Aristotle Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. Aristotle Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. Aristotle He who hath many friends hath none. Aristotle He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. Aristotle He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. Aristotle Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. Aristotle Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle Hope is the dream of a waking man. Aristotle I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. Aristotle If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. Aristotle If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. Aristotle In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. Aristotle In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. Aristotle In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. Aristotle It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. Aristotle It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. Aristotle It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. Aristotle It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. Aristotle Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle Man is naturally a political animal. Aristotle Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. Aristotle Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. Aristotle Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. Aristotle Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. Aristotle Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle Most people would rather give than get affection. Aristotle Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle Nature does nothing in vain. Aristotle Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Aristotle No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. Aristotle No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. Aristotle No one loves the man whom he fears. Aristotle No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. Aristotle Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. Aristotle Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. Aristotle Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. Aristotle Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. Aristotle Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. Aristotle Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. Aristotle Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. Aristotle The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. Aristotle The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle The end of labor is to gain leisure. Aristotle The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. Aristotle The gods too are fond of a joke. Aristotle The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. Aristotle The law is reason, free from passion. Aristotle The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. Aristotle The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. Aristotle The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. Aristotle The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Aristotle The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle The secret to humor is surprise. Aristotle The soul never thinks without a picture. Aristotle The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. Aristotle The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Aristotle The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Aristotle The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. Aristotle There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. Aristotle There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. Aristotle Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. Aristotle This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. Aristotle Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Aristotle Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. Aristotle Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Aristotle To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. Aristotle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. Aristotle We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. Aristotle We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. Aristotle Well begun is half done. Aristotle What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. Aristotle Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Aristotle Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Aristotle You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Aristotle IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS OF SOCRATES Socrates All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. Socrates An honest man is always a child. Socrates As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Socrates As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Socrates Be as you wish to seem. Socrates Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. Socrates Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man. Socrates By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. Socrates He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. Socrates He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. Socrates I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. Socrates I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. Socrates I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. Socrates If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates It is not living that matters, but living rightly. Socrates Let him that would move the world first move himself. Socrates My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Socrates One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. Socrates The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. Socrates The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit. Socrates Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. Socrates Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS OF PLATO A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. Plato A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. Plato 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 the poor peasant as the mighty prince. Plato All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. Plato All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. Plato And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. Plato Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. Plato As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. Plato Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. Plato Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. Plato Courage is a kind of salvation. Plato Courage is knowing what not to fear. Plato Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. Plato Death is not the worst that can happen to men. Plato Democracy passes into despotism. Plato Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. Plato Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Plato Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. Plato Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. Plato For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. Plato For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. Plato For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. Plato Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. Plato Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. Plato He was a wise man who invented beer. Plato He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. Plato He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Plato He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Plato He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. Plato Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. Plato 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 to one another in the waking state? Plato Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. Plato I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. Plato I shall assume that your silence gives consent. Plato I would fain grow old learning many things. Plato If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. Plato If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. Plato Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Plato Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. Plato Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. Plato It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. Plato It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. Plato It is right to give every man his due. Plato Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. Plato Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. Plato Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Plato Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato Knowledge is true opinion. Plato Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Plato Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Plato Life must be lived as play. Plato Love is a serious mental disease. Plato Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato Man - a being in search of meaning. Plato Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. Plato Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. Plato Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? Plato Necessity... the mother of invention. Plato No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Plato No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. Plato No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. Plato No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. Plato No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. Plato Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. Plato Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. Plato Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Plato One man cannot practice many arts with success. Plato One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato Only the dead have seen the end of the war. Plato Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. Plato Philosophy begins in wonder. Plato Philosophy is the highest music. Plato Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. Plato Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. Plato Science is nothing but perception. Plato States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. Plato The beginning is the chiefest part of any work. Plato The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless. Plato The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. Plato The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. Plato The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. Plato The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. Plato The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction. Plato The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. Plato The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. Plato The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. Plato The good is the beautiful. Plato The greatest wealth is to live content with little. Plato The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. Plato The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. Plato The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. Plato The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. Plato The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. Plato The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. Plato The wisest have the most authority. Plato Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. Plato Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. Plato There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. Plato There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Plato There is no harm in repeating a good thing. Plato There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. Plato There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. Plato 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 now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Plato There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. Plato They certainly give very strange names to diseases. Plato They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. Plato Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. Plato Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Plato Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. Plato To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. Plato To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Plato To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. Plato To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. Plato Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. Plato Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. Plato Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. Plato Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. Plato We are twice armed if we fight with faith. Plato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. Plato We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. Plato We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. Plato Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. Plato Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. Plato When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. Plato When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. Plato When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. Plato Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences. Plato Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Plato You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato Your silence gives consent. Plato |
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