Ideal Citizen Quotes by Plato

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• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
• The measure of a man is what he does with power.
• Even the gods love jokes.
• Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the…
• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
• The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
• Love: a grave mental disease.
• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
• Courage is a kind of salvation.

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