Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
PLATOWise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
More Plato Quotes
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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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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You should not honor men more than truth.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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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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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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