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We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

By Plato

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

By Plato

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

By Plato

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

By Plato

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

By Plato

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

By Plato

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

By Plato

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

By Plato

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

By Plato

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

By Plato

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

By Plato

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

By Plato

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

By Plato

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

By Plato

Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

By Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

By Plato

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

By Plato

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

By Plato

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

By Plato

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

By Plato

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

By Plato

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

By Plato

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.

By Plato

There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

By Plato

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

By Plato

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

By Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

By Plato

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

By Plato

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

By Plato

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

By Plato