Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PLATOOf all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
More Plato Quotes
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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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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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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