Márcia Oliveira

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”
― Plato, Republic