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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

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.
Plato

Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato

Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato


Science is nothing but perception.
Plato

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
Plato

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Plato

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato

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Biography
Type: Philosopher
Nationality: Greek
Born: 427 BC
Died: 347 BC

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