The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PLATONever discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
More Plato Quotes
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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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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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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