The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice. -
Plato
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -
Plato
Friends have all things in common. -
Plato
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavour to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. -
Plato
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? -
Plato
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. -
Plato
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. -
Plato
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. -
Plato
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. -
Plato
The life which is unexamined is not worth living. -
Plato
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name. -
Plato
