No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
PLATOThe heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
More Plato Quotes
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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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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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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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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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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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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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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