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“But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?”

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Plato

Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) was a prominent Greek philosopher, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy. He founded the Academy, which was the first institution of higher education in the Western world. Plato's philosophy, centered around the theory of Forms, emphasized the importance of reason and morality. more

“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.”

Source: The Republic

“The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.”

Men Use Would Be Teach Tools Plato

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”

Men Inspirational Justice Pay Amount Taxes Injustice Income Unjust Plato Taxation Income Tax Irs Tax Day Paying Taxes Taxes Funny

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.”

Ifs Men Should Use Lying Individual Medicine Useless Physicians Plato

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.”

Mind Mean Character Grace Style Depends Harmony Simplicity Rhythm Folly Plato Euphemism

Book:The Republic: A Socratic Dialogue Concerning the Definition of Justice and the Order and Character of the Just City-State and the Just Man (Beloved Books Edition)

Source: The Republic: A Socratic Dialogue Concerning the Definition of Justice and the Order and Character of the Just City-State and the Just Man (Beloved Books Edition)

“Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.”

Believe Matter Seems Law Belief Court Meetings Producers Instruction Rhetoric Plato Persuasion Law Courts

Book:Plato

Source: Plato

“Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.”

Knows Remember Evil Virtue Conditions Aim Possession Pursuit Plato Attainment Our Words

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)

“And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.”