All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. plato
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.plato
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. plato
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.plato
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. 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
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.plato
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injusticeplato
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.plato