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  • Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
  • No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
  • We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
  • No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
  • For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
  • Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
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  • Plato Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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  • Plato Even the gods love jokes.
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  • Plato When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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  • Plato First appearance deceives many.
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  • Plato All learning has an emotional base.
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  • Plato All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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  • Plato An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
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  • Plato At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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  • Plato At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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  • Plato Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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  • Plato They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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  • Ann Plato A good education is another name for happiness.
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  • Ann Plato A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Plato A well begun is half ended.
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  • George Santayana All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
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    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Plato Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
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  • Plato Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
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  • Plato Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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  • Plato Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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