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Plato Quote - The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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