The Republic Quotes

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who could reason.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:reason

“Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:education learning

“courage is a kind of salvation.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:courage

“No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:poverty wealth

“I replied: There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to enquire, whether the way is smooth...”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:age way

“True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:mind thinking

“Then justice will be useful when money is useless.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:money justice

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:appearance

“And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty?”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:slavery democracy tyranny liberty

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