#ay

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. ↗

— Plato

#income #income tax #just #less #man

Life must be lived as play. ↗

— Plato

#lived #must #play

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. ↗

— Plato

#away #become #earth #far #fly

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. ↗

— Plato

#community #neither #noblest #nor #poverty

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. ↗

— Plato

#always #any #bettered #curse #immediate

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. ↗

— Plato

#ill #live #may #men #nobody

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. ↗

— Plato

#everybody #life #mouth #saying #sojourn

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. ↗

— Plato

#allowed #either #good #home #lie

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. ↗

— Plato

#destinies #happening #legislate #man #never

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ↗

— Plato

#evil #fear #good #greatest #know