Quote #10973
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Category Archives: Plato, The Republic
Quote #6661
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government...
Quote #4407
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Quote #4408
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Quote #4409
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness,...
Quote #4410
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Quote #4411
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to...
Quote #4412
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Quote #4413
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is...
Quote #4414
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into...