Nothing beautiful without struggle.
PLATOOne of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
More Plato Quotes
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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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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