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Plato Quotes

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

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men"

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"Time is the moving image of eternity"

"Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."

"Knowledge is true opinion"

"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself"

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

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal"