The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.
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Rather I think that a man who.. Is willing.. To value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.
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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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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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All is flux, nothing stays still
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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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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Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
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