The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOExcellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
More Plato Quotes
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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