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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. ↗

— Plato

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ↗

— Plato

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Life must be lived as play. ↗

— Plato

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. ↗

— Plato

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ↗

— Plato

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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. ↗

— Plato

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Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. ↗

— Plato

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