No human thing is of serious importance.
PLATOThose who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
More Plato Quotes
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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