Quote of Plato - Until kings are philosophers or philosophers...

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

Source: Republic

Quote

Until kings are philosophers or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill.”
Plato - Republic

Translation

(French)

Il faudrait pour le bonheur des Etats que les philosophes fussent rois ou que les rois fussent philosophes.”
Platon - La République

Quotes for: philosopher:

Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Karl Marx - Theses on Feuerbach

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.”
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

The beard does not make the philosopher.”

philosopher

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.”
William Shakespeare

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Quotes about king:

A wise and prudent king knows how to make use of even the least of his subjects.”
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

If I were not king, I should lose my temper.”
Louis XIV

To avoid covetousness is to conquer a kingdom.”
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
Desiderius Erasmus

king

A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.”
Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron

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Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.”
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
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Plato - Apology of Socrates

Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato

The good is the beautiful.”
Plato

Science is nothing but perception.”
Plato

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