Plato Quotes

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Of all forms of prestige, moral prestige is the most valuable, and no statesman should forget that one of the chief elements of British power is the moral weight that is behind it.

To do good, and be evil spoken of, is kingly.

Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.

The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

A good leader must be fair.

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Politics ruins the character.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

It is impossible to design a constitution that is so perfect that no one has to be good.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

What is the purpose of our might if we do not use it for good.

The Decalogue and the Golden Rule have no place in a political campaign. The commander who lost the battle through the activity of his moral nature would be the derision and jest of history.

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to

The principal end a prince was made for is to take care, that every one should have his rights. This ought to engage him to study not only the science of those great civilians, who ascend to the first principles of law, which regulate human society, and are the basis as it were of government and politics; but also that part of the law, which descends to the affairs of particular persons. This branch is generally left for the gentlemen of the long robe, and not admitted into the education of princes, though they are every day to pass judgment upon the fortunes, liberties, lives, honor, and reputation of their subjects. Princes are continually talked to of valour and liberality; but if justice do not regulate these two qualities, they degenerate into the most odious vices. Without justice valour does nothing but destroy; and liberality is only a foolish profuseness. Justice keeps all in order, and contains within bounds him, who distributes it, as well as those, to whom it is distributed.

A superior man thinks of what is right. A small man thinks of profit.

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler.