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 heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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