The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATOHe whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
More Plato Quotes
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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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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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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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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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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You should not honor men more than truth.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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