Quote of Plato - We must observe that in each...
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
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
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.
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Quotes for: good
Delve within; within is the fountain of good, and it is always ready to bubble up, if you always delve.
Quotes about pleasure:
Quotes for: Desire
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.
Quotes for: principle
Article III – The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. No body, no individual can exert authority which does not emanate expressly from it.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
The Other is on principle inapprehensible; he flees me when I seek him and possesses me when I flee him.
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
Plato also said...
The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
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