In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which
peers out in sleep.
-- Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book IX, 571d
peers out in sleep.
-- Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book IX, 571d
Related:
- Do to others as I would they should do to me.
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Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book XI,... - Regrets and complaints about relations are to be attributed to the
same cause,
which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers... - Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to
another.
Plato, The Republic. Book VII.... - And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of
invention.
Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic", Book II.... - No one has died an atheist. --
Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Bk. X,... - Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body;
but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains... - Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and
disorder,
and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals... - The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato, The Republic. Book II.... - What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours
which music puts upon them,
and recited in simple prose. -- Plato, The Republic...
