The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOHonesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
More Plato Quotes
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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