The Republic and Other Works Quotes

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”
― Plato, The Republic and Other Works

“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.”
― Plato, The Republic and Other Works

“…it’s better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.”
― Plato, The Republic and Other Works

“Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…”
― Plato, The Republic and Other Works