Plato Quotes About Suffering
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
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... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.
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