Quote of Plato - The chief penalty is to be...

Biography - Plato:

Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.

Plato - Republic

Note

Source: Republic

wikisource - Platon - Œuvres complètes (fr)

Translation

(French, German)

Le plus grand châtiment consiste à être gouverné par un plus méchant que soi, quand on ne veut pas gouverner soi-même.

Platon - La République

Die größte Strafe aber ist, von einem Schlechteren regiert zu werden, wenn man selbst nicht herrschen will

Platon - Politeia

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Time is the moving image of eternity.

Plato - Timaeus /

Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.

Plato - Symposium /

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato /

We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.

Plato - Phaedrus /

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.

Plato - Symposium /

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato - Phaedo

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