Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Plato
Plato.
| Born | Aristocles 427? B.C. Athens, Greece |
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| Died | 348? B.C. Athens, Greece |
Greek philosopher. Student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. Founded the Academy. Philosophy of Platonism featured ethics and logic.
The repository contains six quotes from Plato.
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Leadership • Politics and Government
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
