The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PLATOThere are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
More Plato Quotes
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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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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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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