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The Republic of Plato

  • Željka Tanaskovićhas quotedlast year
    Then, I said, Thrasymachus, there is no one in any rule who, in so far as he is a ruler, considers or enjoins what is for his own interest, but always what is for the interest of his subject or suitable to his art; to that he looks, and that alone he considers in everything which he says and does.
  • Željka Tanaskovićhas quotedlast year
    Yes, I said, my impression was that you did so, when you admitted that the ruler was not infallible but might be sometimes mistaken.who adopts another line of defence: ‘No artist or ruler is ever mistaken qua artist or ruler.’
  • Srdjan Veljkovichas quoted2 years ago
    words of Hesiod;— 44

    ‘Vice may be had in abundance without trouble; Dthe way is smooth and her dwelling-place is near. But before virtue the gods have set toil6
  • Srdjan Veljkovichas quoted2 years ago
    ‘Hope,’ he says, ‘cherishes the soul of him who lives in justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey;—hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man.’
  • Srdjan Veljkovichas quoted2 years ago
    ‘Hope,’ he says, ‘cherishes the soul of him who lives in justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey;—hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man.’
  • Erick Oropezahas quoted3 years ago
    believe that Periander or Perdiccas or Xerxes or Ismenias the Theban, or some other rich and mighty man, who had a great opinion of his own power, was the first to say that justice is ‘doing good to your friends and harm to your enemies.’
  • Erick Oropezahas quoted3 years ago
    Then if a man says that justice consists in the repayment of debts, and that good is the debt which a just man owes to his friends, and evil the debt which he owes to his enemies,—to say this is not wise; for it is not true, if, as has been clearly shown, the injuring of another can be in no case just.
  • Erick Oropezahas quoted3 years ago
    then justice is the art which gives good to friends and evil to enemies.
  • Erick Oropezahas quoted3 years ago
    Hope,’ he says, ‘cherishes the soul of him who lives in justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey;—hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man.’ The admirable strain of Pindar.
  • Erick Oropezahas quoted3 years ago
    what wrongs he has done to others.
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