The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PLATOMusical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
More Plato Quotes
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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