The first and best victory is to conquer self.
PLATOOne of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
More Plato Quotes
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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 price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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All learning has an emotional base.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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 born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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