The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOThe heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOEither we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
PLATODo not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
PLATOMan 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.
PLATOCourage is knowing what not to fear.
PLATOMusical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
PLATOAny man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
PLATOHe who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
PLATOOnly the dead have seen the end of war.
PLATOPhilosophy is the highest music.
PLATOBodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PLATOLove is a serious mental disease.
PLATOThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PLATOFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
PLATOLet the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
PLATONo man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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