At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato
Quotes / By person / Plato Quotes You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato
Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly". - Plato
Quotes / By person / Plato Quotes Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly". - Plato
THE REPUBLIC By Plato
Works / Books / Plato Books / THE REPUBLIC By Plato Greek lang click here: Πολιτεία Πλάτωνος THE REPUBLIC By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Note: See also "The Republic" by Plato, Jowett, etext #150 Parts of P.Oxy. LII 3679, 3rd century, containing fragments of Plato's Republic. Contents INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. THE REPUBLIC. PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. BOOK I. BOOK II. BOOK III. BOOK IV. BOOK V. BOOK VI. BOOK VII. BOOK VIII. BOOK IX. BOOK X. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, the Symposium and the Protagoras are of higher excellence. But no other Dialogue of Plato has the same largeness of view an...