Plato

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Plato

There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those we now call kings really and truly become philosophers.

Plato

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Plato

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

Plato

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Plato

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

Plato

Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

Plato

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato