Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 30

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say: Fools because they have to say something

Plato

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.

Plato

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Plato

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