Gorgias
Plato
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.”
“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.”
“I would rather . . . that the whole world should be at odds with me, and oppose me, rather than that I myself should be at odds with myself, and contradict myself.”
“Will not the good man, who says whatever he says with a view to the best, speak with a reference to some standard and not at random; just as all other artists, whether the painter, the builder, the shipwright, or any other look all of them to their own work, and do not select and apply at random what they apply, but strive to give a definite form to it?”
“So I spoke the truth when I said that neither I nor you nor any other man would rather do injustice than suffer it: for it is worse.”
“He who desires to be happy must pursue and practice temperance and run away from intemperance as fast as his legs will carry him.”
“If you want to silence me, silence philosophy, who is my love.”
“So when the orator is more convincing than the doctor, what happens is that an ignorant person is more convincing than the expert before an equally ignorant audience.”
“No man who is not an utter fool and coward is afraid of death itself, but he is afraid of doing wrong. For to go to the world below having one's soul full of injustice is the last and worst of all evils.”
“Where there is great power to do wrong, to live and to die justly is a hard thing.”
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