Famous Quotes by Plato, The Republic

Below are famous quotes by Plato, The Republic - Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC).

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

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.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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