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• The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

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  Children, Mind, Essentials

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• Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

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  Life, Running, Men

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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  Children, Philosophical, Men

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

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  Plato, Democracy, Equal

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• Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

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  Passion, Luxury, Political

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• The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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  Knowledge, Science, Sake

  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.251

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• So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

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  Dance, Men, Dancing

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• Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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  Book, Son, Immortal

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• This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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  Funny, Cities, Citizens

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• Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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  Suffering, Injustice, Censure

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• And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

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  Love Is, Order, Essence

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.107, Penguin

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• States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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  Plato, Pregnancy, Philosophical

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• Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

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  Philosophy, Philosopher, Affection

  Plato, Henry Cary, Rev. Henry Davis (M.A.), George Burges (1848). “The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis”, p.385

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• I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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  Men, Thinking, Better Man

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.35, Hackett Publishing

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• Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

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  Spiritual, Men, Evil

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.72, First Avenue Editions

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• They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

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  Truth, Honesty, Plato

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin

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• And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

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  Plato, Boys, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

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  Art, Mean, Men

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• Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

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  Human Nature

  Plato (2013). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

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  Rejects

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• Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

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  Running, Men, Doors

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

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  Children, Men, Old Man

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• The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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  Plato, Knowledge, Math

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• Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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  Plato, Math, Amusing

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• No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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  Men, Knowing, Society

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.388

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