“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.