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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.
(Plato (428-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Quoted in Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Eloquence," Society and Solitude (1870).)
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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.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 344 C....)
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Glaucon, in The Republic, bk. 7, sect. 529.
Socrates disagreed: "It seems to me that astronomy, as now handled by those who embark on philosophy, positively makes the soul look downwards.")
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. The Republic, bk. 2, sct. 5.)
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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the actions in which they are concerned.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Protagoras, 808 B....)
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Protagoras, 754 C....)
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Let brother help brother.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 362 D....)
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