One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PLATOLove is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
More Plato Quotes
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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