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• Philosophy is the highest music.

  Plato

  Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Plato (2016). “Apology Of Socrates And Crito”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

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• Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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  Philosophy, Becoming, Elegance

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• The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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  Men, Would Be, Tools

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.257, Xist Publishing

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• For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

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  Love, Children, Father

  Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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  Parent, Noble, Use

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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• There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

  Plato

  Math, Men, Three

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• Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

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• The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Drinking, Water

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• In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Light

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• And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

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  Men, Self, Order

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.310, Lulu.com

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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, Believe

  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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• 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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  Believe, Ties, Views

  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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• When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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  Leader, Citizens, Should

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• In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

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  Love, Passion, Profound

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.3

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• That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Law

  Plato (1921). “Theaetetus, Sophist”

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• The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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  Math, Branches, States

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.413, Xist Publishing

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• Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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  Philosophical, Men, Hype

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• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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  Wisdom, Educational, Knowledge

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.349, Penguin

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• I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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  Conflict, Combat, Earthly Desires

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.118

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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, Men, Suffering

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• 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.

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  Wise, Heaven, Earth

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.8095, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

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  Men, Courageous, Fear Of Death

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.268, Xist Publishing

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• The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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  Thinking, Cities, Wish

  Plato, Harold North Fowler, Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, Robert Gregg Bury (1953). “Plato”

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• Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

  Plato

  Evil, Our Words, Remember

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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• Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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  Perfection, Excellence, Done

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.2224, Catholic Way Publishing

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