The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOThe 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.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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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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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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