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• The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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  Philosophical, Animal, Tree

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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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• 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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• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

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  Athlete, Savages, Too Much

  Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

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  Wise, Men, Useless Things

  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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• Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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  Music, Law, Innovation

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• Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

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  Anxiety, Affair, Humans

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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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• Music is a defining element of character.

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  Music, Character, Elements

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• Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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  Sports, Commitment, Land

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• The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

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  Education, Real, School

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.154

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• The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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  Wise, Plato, Men

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• To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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  Suffering, Injustice, Disgraceful

  Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• Excellent things are rare.

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  Excellence, Excellent

  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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• 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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• I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

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  Sorry, Philosophy, Thinking

  Plato (2013). “Plato - Dialogues”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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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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• 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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• Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Law, Essence

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• The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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  Education, Plato, Philosophical

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• Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

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  Music, Republic, Art Education

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• Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

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  Greed, Democracy, Excess

  Plato (1963). “The Republic”

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• For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

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  Plato, Men, Dwelling

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

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  Beautiful, Secret, Persons

  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.901, e-artnow

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• There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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  Character, Responsibility, Men

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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