One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PLATOTrue friendship can exist only between equals.
More Plato Quotes
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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