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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -
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Top 5 quotes from Plato
"No human thing is of serious importance."
"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
Top 5 quotes from Good & Evil, Politics
"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency."
"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
"The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with."
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