I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.Socrates (Character)
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.Plato
The measure of a man is what he does with power.Plato
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.Socrates (Character)
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.Plato
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.Plato
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.Plato
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.Plato
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.Plato