"No one ever teaches well who wants to……" — Plato
"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."
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683 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.…
- 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.