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«Courage is knowing what not to fear.»
«We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.»
«One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
end up, governed, inferiors, participate, participated, participates, participating, penalties, politics, Refusing
«Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.»
«If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals»
«The measure of a man is what he does with power.»
«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?»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
awake, prove, sleeping, sleep out, sleep over, state, talking, talking to, The Wake, waking, waking up
«Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.»
«Man - a being in search of meaning.»
«I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning»
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