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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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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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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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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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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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