“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
― Plato's Republic
― Plato's Republic
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
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