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• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
  Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amuseme...
• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
  -- Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 529...
• 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...
• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic", Book II. 369C...
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
• 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...
• 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 greatest gift for an individual or a nation ...
  was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind....
• The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B