Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PLATOA house that has a library in it has a soul.
More Plato Quotes
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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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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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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All learning has an emotional base.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
PLATO