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Quotes by Plato, The Republic

"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
By Plato, The Republic
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"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
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"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."
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"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
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"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
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"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."
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"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."
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"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
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"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
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"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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"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
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"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."
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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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"Necessity, who is the mother of invention."
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"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
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"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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"Necessity, who is the mother of invention."
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