Those who tell the stories rule society.
PLATOThe heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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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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