No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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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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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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