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Plato Quotes
«This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
appears, protector, protectors, root, springs, tyrant
«Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
All My, external, grant, harmony, in harmony, in restraint, possessions, restraint, riches, rich person, self-restraint, wise to
«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.»
«The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
affairs, apathy, man of affairs, price, Public affairs, ruled
«Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites»
«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.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
call, come into, hands, humanity, in this, In this World, kings, no end, philosophers, philosophy, political, political power, rulers, States, The State of the World, The Troubles, thus, till, troubles, truly, world power
