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• As the government is, such will be the man.

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  Men, Government, He Man

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.303, First Avenue Editions

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• He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

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  Men, Sick, Firsts

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.3399, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Music is a defining element of character.

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  Music, Character, Elements

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• The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

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  May, Stills

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

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  Character, Reality, Words Of Wisdom

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• Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

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  Agreement, Symphony, Harmony

  Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.905, e-artnow

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• Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

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  Soul, Looks, Body

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• Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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  Children, Plato, Spring

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• Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

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  Life, Mean, Way

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.1769, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Only the dead will know the end of the war.

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  Military, War, Army

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• Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Math, Soul

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.7552, Catholic Way Publishing

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• And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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  Love, Men, Two

  Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.475, Hackett Publishing

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• A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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  Laughter, Plato, Excess

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.271, Xist Publishing

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• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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  Philosophical, Science, Soul

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.27, University Press of America

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• A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

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  Fighting, Men, Justice

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

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  Science, Astrology, Heaven

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• There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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  Desire, Type, Terrible

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• Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

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  Plato, Men, Courageous

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.268, Xist Publishing

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• He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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  Philosophical, Wish, Littles

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

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  Inspire, Heroism, Cowardly

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.656, Modern Library

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• When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

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• Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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  Mother, Invention

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.75, First Avenue Editions

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• ... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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  Character, Men, Political

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

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  Wise, Justice, Brave

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

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  Dog, Opposites, People

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