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Plato QUOTES

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

  • Wise people speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

  • At the touch of love everybody becomes a poet.

  • Necessity is the mother of invention.



  • He was a wise man, the one he invented beer.

  • Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the tragedy is when a man is afraid of the light.

  • The greatest wealth is to be content with little.

  • Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.

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

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

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


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