More from Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
The Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book IV, 425BIn contextWise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Attributed to Plato on the letterhead of the Constitution Party. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations compiled by The Library of Congress. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2010.




