One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PLATOBe kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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