Necessity is the mother of invention.
PLATOThose who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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