One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PLATOWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
More Plato Quotes
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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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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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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