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The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Socrates

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Socrates. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

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What I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is to the interest of the stronger party.

Thrasymachus

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Thrasymachus. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

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For what should a man live, if not for the pleasures of discourse?

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Phaedrus

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Socrates. Quoted in Φαῖδρος [Phaedrus], written by Plato. c. 370 BC, section 258e.

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Socrates. Quoted in "Phaedrus." Plato: Lysis; Symposium; Phaedrus, written by Plato, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2022, sect. 258e.

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Behold! human beings living in an underground den... Like ourselves... They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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Friends have all things in common.

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Phaedrus

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Phaedrus. Quoted in Φαῖδρος [Phaedrus], written by Plato. c. 370 BC, sect. 279c.

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Phaedrus. Quoted in "Phaedrus." Plato: Lysis; Symposium; Phaedrus, written by Plato, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2022, sect. 279c.

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How, then, might we contrive... One noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city?

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Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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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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In the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets.

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The city in which those who are to rule are least eager to hold office must needs be the best governed and freest from strife.

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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils.

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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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The country places and the trees won't teach me anything, and the people in the city do.

Socrates

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Socrates. Quoted in Φαῖδρος [Phaedrus], written by Plato. c. 370 BC.

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Socrates. Quoted in "Phaedrus." Plato: Lysis; Symposium; Phaedrus, written by Plato, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2022.

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When the tyrant has disposed for 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.

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The sea! the sea!

Xenophon

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Anabasis

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Greek soldiers, upon seeing the Black Sea for the first time as they returned from war in Persia.

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Xenophon. Anabasis. c. 370 BC, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 24.

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Xenophon. The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis, translated by David Thomas, edited by Shand Brennan and David Thomas. Pantheon, 2021, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 24.

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