We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
PlatoTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
PlatoThose who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PlatoA tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
PlatoAll soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.
Plato