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Plato: “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Plato: “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Plato: “A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Plato: “The gods who have been appointed to be our companions in the dance, have given us the pleasurable sense of harmony and rhythm; and so they stir us to life, and we follow them, joining together in dances and songs.
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Plato: “The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Plato: “Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Plato: “There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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Plato: “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Plato: “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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