Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PLATOExcellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
More Plato Quotes
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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