One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PLATOLet the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
More Plato Quotes
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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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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All learning has an emotional base.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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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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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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