The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOPeople are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
More Plato Quotes
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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