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    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “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.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    ― Plato
    tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    Plato
    “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Love is a serious mental disease.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
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    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
    1143 likes

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    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    ― Plato
    tags: laws, people
    890 likes

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    Plato
    “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: abilities, empowerment, equality, gender, instruction, jobs, men, skills, women, work
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    Plato
    “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “There is truth in wine and children”
    ― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
    tags: aphorism
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    Plato
    “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
    ― Plato
    tags: inspirational
    564 likes

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    Plato
    “The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
    550 likes

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    Plato
    “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
    ― Plato
    tags: courage, fear
    543 likes

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    Plato
    “You should not honor men more than truth.”
    ― Plato
    tags: honesty, honor, secrecy, truth
    515 likes

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  • #18
    Plato
    “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
    ― Plato
    tags: contentment, living, simple
    356 likes

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  • #19
    Plato
    “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
    ― Plato
    tags: aphorism
    380 likes

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    Plato
    “Character is simply habit long continued.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
    ― Plato
    tags: children, kids, parent, parenting
    311 likes

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    Plato
    “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.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
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  • #24
    Plato
    “χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

    Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
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  • #25
    Plato
    “Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
    ― Plato
    tags: writing
    222 likes

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    Plato
    “For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
    ― Plato, Theaetetus
    tags: philosophy, thinking, wisdom, wondering
    199 likes

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    Plato
    “Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
    ― Plato
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  • #28
    Plato
    “Love is the pursuit of the whole.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Man is a being in search of meaning.”
    ― Plato
    tags: inspirational
    143 likes

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  • #30
    Plato
    “Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: knowledge
    141 likes



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