Collected Meditations
Showing 147 quotesTo 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.— Plato
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.— Plato
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.— Plato
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.— Plato
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.— Plato
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.— Plato
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.— Plato
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.— Plato
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.— Plato
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Equality