Quote #62
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
More from Plato
- The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared to that of which we are ignorant.
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of …
- The good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor. They do not wish to collect pay openly for their service of rule…
- There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance.
- Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
- I shall assume that your silence gives consent (XLI).
- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.