One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PLATOThe soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
More Plato Quotes
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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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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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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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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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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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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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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