Quote #51
The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.
More from Plato
- You cannot conceive the many without the one.
- Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Poetry and philosophy are always hostile to each other.
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile f…
- If you can discover a better way of life than office-holding for your future rulers, a well-governed city becomes a possibility. For only i…
- Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
- And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then h…
- Death is not the worst that can happen to men.