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• As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

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  Inquiry, May, Lovers

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• For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

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  Men, Evil, Religion

  Plato (1934). “The Laws of Plato”

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• If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

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  Plato, Believe, Ties

  Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES (1852). “The Republic of Plato, Translated Into English, with an Introduction, Analysis, and Notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.289

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• If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

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  Science, Self, Giving

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• 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.

  Plato

  Light, Poetry, Able

  Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”

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• The god is the beautiful.

  Plato

  Beautiful

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• The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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  Divinity, Poet, Bondage

  Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”

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• In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

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  Military, Design, Democracy

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• The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

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  Hate, Heart, Men

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• Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

  Plato

  Moon, Doubt, Littles

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• And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

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  Good Things, Beneficial, Ifs

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• [Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

  Plato

  Mother, Plato, Alive

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

  Plato

  Plato, Character, Mean

  Plato (2013). “The Republic: A Socratic Dialogue Concerning the Definition of Justice and the Order and Character of the Just City-State and the Just Man (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.322, Lulu Press, Inc

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• For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

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  Harmony, Difficult, Rhythm

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• They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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  Knowledge, Science, Dedication

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• What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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  Music, Simple, Simplicity

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.485, Xist Publishing

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• If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

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  Sex, Excellence, Unions

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• Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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  Vices, Virtue, Produce

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• 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.

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  Running, Strong, Thinking

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

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• Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

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  Jobs, Class, Evil

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

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• They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

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  Friendship, Enemy, Dangerous

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.196

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• Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

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  Distance, Conditions

  Plato (1926). “Cratylus: Parmenides ; Greater Hippias ; Lesser Hippias”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

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  Plato, Numbers, Soul

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.24, University Press of America

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• May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

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  Wise, Men, Gold

  Plato, Henry Cary (1852). “The Works of Plato: A New and Literal Version, Chiefly from the Text of Stallbaum”, p.360

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• The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

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  Doctors, Citizens, Constitution

  Republic

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