The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PlatoTags: politics
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PlatoHe who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.
PlatoBy such reflections and by the continuance in them of a divine nature, th qualities which we have described grew and increased among them; but when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power.
Zeus, the god of gods, who rules according to law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an honourable race was in a woeful plight, and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that they might be chastened and improve, collected all the gods into their most holy habitation, whch being placed in the centre of the world, beholds all created things. And when he had called them together, he spake as follows --
Tags: atlantis fall-of-atlantis
True friendship can exist only between equals.
PlatoTags: friendship equals
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
PlatoTags: republic
Докато в държавите не започнат да царуват философите или докато сега споменатите царе и властници не започнат истински и по задоволителен начин да се занимават с философия, докато държавната власт и философията не се слеят в едно и докато природните качества на тия, които сега поотделно се стремят към едното или към другото, докато по необходимост ще се изключват взаимно, дотогава мисля, че няма да настъпи край на злините за държавите и за човешкия род.
PlatoНали и за философа ще кажем, че той обича мъдростта, но не една или друга част от мъдростта, а цялата?
Plato- Кои ти наричаш истински философи?
- Тия, които обичат да наблюдават истината.
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.
PlatoTags: inspirational
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