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• No one has ever died an atheist. -- Plato
• Do to others as I would they should do to me.
  -- Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book XI, 913...
• 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...
• Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. -- Plato (428-347 or 348 B.C.)
• 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...
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• The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B
• But when he [the people's champion] has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty
  and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader....
• 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...