The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATONever discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
More Plato Quotes
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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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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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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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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