"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily."
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Source: Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.72, Cosimo, Inc.
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