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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....
• In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
  -- Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book IX, 571d...
• The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B
• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic", Book II. 369C...
• Do to others as I would they should do to me.
  -- Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book XI, 913...
• Plato says, "'T is to no purpose for a sober man to knock at the door of the Muse
  and Aristotle says "that no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of folly....
• Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
  -- Plato, The Republic. Book VIII. 558...
• Far be it from us, the danger of thinking. -- Ferdinand VII
• What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
  -- Plato, The Republic. Book X. 601B...