Quote #63
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
More from Plato
- No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
- The good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor. They do not wish to collect pay openly for their service of rule…
- The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared to that of which we are ignorant.
- Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
- Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of …
- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance.
- At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.