The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATOThe beginning is the most important part of the work.
More Plato Quotes
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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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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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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