The measure of a man is what he does with power.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Democracy passes into despotism.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in government is to live under the government of worse men.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Ideas are the source of all things.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato Quotes on Politics part 2
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Genius is the power to rightly perceive distinctions.
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Attention to health is the greatest hindrance to life.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in government is to live under the government of worse men.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy.
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
The city is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Attention to health is the greatest hindrance to life.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Justice will only exist when those not affected by injustice are as outraged as those who are.
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.
Genius is the power to rightly perceive distinctions.
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