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• If you can discover a better way of life than office-holding for your future rulers, a well-governed city becomes a possibility.
  For only in such a state will those rule who are truly rich, not in gold, but in the wealth that makes happiness--a good and wise life....
• Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic...
• diplomacy, n: Lying in state.
• Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad
  and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorized ones only....
• Diplomacy: Lying in state. -- Oliver Herford
• Do you think the State or any other institution should do more for writers?
  The State should do no more for writers than it should do for any other person who lives in it....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream
  or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? -- Plato...
• Reality is only a state of mind.