Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PLATONo wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
More Plato Quotes
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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