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• Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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  Plato, Honor, Noble

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• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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  Family, Children, Plato

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62

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• What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

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  Beautiful, Naked, Handsome

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• The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.

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  Children, Men, Differences

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• Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

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  People, Language, Mathematics

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• The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

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  Physicians, Patient

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• Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

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  Men, Cities, Tree

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• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

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  Men, Giving, Honor

  Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). “The banquet (also known as The symposium)”

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• He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

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  Darkness, Walks

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.324, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

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  Moving, Soul, Doe

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• He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

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  Order, Effort, Arriving

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• Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

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  Soul, Geometry, Draws

  Plato (2001). “Plato's Republic: The Theatre of the Mind”, p.273, Agora Publications, Inc.

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• Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

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  Music, Education, Plato

  Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES, David James VAUGHAN (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.64

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• But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

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  Sports, Children, Self

  Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): 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.2702, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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  Government, Truth Is, States

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.21, University Press of America

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• Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

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  Men, Argument, Pretender

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.72, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

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  Leadership, Sports, Use

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• For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Youth

  Plato (2013). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

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  Soul, Body, Made

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• Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

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  Stars, Eye, Heaven

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• You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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  Mistake, Men, Evil

  Plato, Richard Stanley Bluck (1955). “Phaedo: Translated, with Introd., Notes, and Appendices”

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• Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

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  Men, Atheism, Divine Power

  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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• The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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  Children, Childhood, Mind

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• The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

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  Race, Guardian, Pure

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• Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

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  Soul, Kind, Virtue

  Plato (1849). “The Works of Plato: The Republic, Timaeus, and Critias”, p.130

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