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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

Plato
Running, Smart, People

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

Plato
Beautiful, Running, Effort

True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

Plato
Running, Men, Long
Plato (1956). “Protagoras and Meno”

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

Plato
Life, Running, Men
Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.39, Courier Corporation

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Plato
Running, Men, Doors
Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

Plato
Encouraging, Running, Perseverance

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

Plato
Inspirational, Running, Men
Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Plato
Running, Men, Hymns

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

Plato
Running, Strong, Thinking
Plato (0101). “Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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