"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."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended."
"Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding."
"Artist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he is what his name implies."
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
"Above all things truth beareth away the victory."
"You should not honor men more than truth."
"All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will."
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
"Man is a being in search of meaning."
"Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul."
"I have good hope that there is something after death."
"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."
"There are three arts which are concerned with all things. One which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being."
"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."
"Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it, but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them."
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
"Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own."
"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike."