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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

Until kings are philosophers or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Il faudrait pour le bonheur des Etats que les philosophes fussent rois ou que les rois fussent philosophes.




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Quotes for: philosopher


Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.





Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The beard does not make the philosopher.
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The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.











Quotes for: king


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Quotes about king:


If I were not king, I should lose my temper.





A wise and prudent king knows how to make use of even the least of his subjects.





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





To avoid covetousness is to conquer a kingdom.





What man is without fault, and what king without weakness?





Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.











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





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





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.





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












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