Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureThe true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 8.3
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureDemocracy passes into despotism.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 8.3
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureFor our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 8.2
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureWhat I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is to the interest of the stronger party.ThrasymachusPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 8.1
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureBehold! human beings living in an underground den... Like ourselves... They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 8.0
Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literatureThe object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 5.8
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureAstronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 5.7
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureDemocracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 5.7
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureHow, then, might we contrive... One noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city?SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 5.7
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureThe beginning is the most important part of the work.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 5.0
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureWealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 4.0
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureThe city in which those who are to rule are least eager to hold office must needs be the best governed and freest from strife.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 4.0
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureIn the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 4.0
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureUntil philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 4.0
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureThe people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 4.0
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureWhen the tyrant has disposed for foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 4.0
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureThe soul of man is immortal and imperishable.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 2.4
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureWhat is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's?SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 2.4
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureWhen there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.SocratesPlato, Republic · 375 BC★ 2.4
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