Quotations From PLATO

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• 101.

  The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 613 C....
• 102.

  A state ... arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 369 B....
• 103.

  Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 420 B....
  
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• 104.

  They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 375 B....
• 105.

  I proclaim that might is right, justice, the interest of the stronger.

  Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 388 C....
  
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