Plato Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

  Plato

  Love, Men, Enemy

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.142, Catholic Way Publishing

• When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

  Plato

  Peace, War, Tyrants

• Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

  Plato

  Bad Friend, Enemy, Good Enemy

• They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

  Plato

  Truth, Honesty, Plato

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin

• To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

  Plato

  Plato, Lying, Enemy

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.80

• They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

  Plato

  Friendship, Enemy, Dangerous

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.196

• If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

  Plato

  Wise, Kindness, Men

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