The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOAll learning has an emotional base.
More Plato Quotes
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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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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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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People 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.
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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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There is truth in wine and children.
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