The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOOf all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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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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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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