Plato Quotes and Sayings
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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
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“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
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“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”
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“A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.”
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“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
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“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”
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“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
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“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul”
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