Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that each stick is goin….
Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?.
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic.".
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement..
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of n….
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they an….
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income..
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another..
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants..
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men..
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesia….
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul..
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an a….
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and ther….
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs;….
I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense of arguing for sp….
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain..
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man..
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men..
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it….
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing w….