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.
PLATOThe measure of a man is what he does with power.
More Plato Quotes
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All learning has an emotional base.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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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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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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