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• Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 383...
• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic", Book II. 369C...
• Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body
  but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind....
• 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 beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B
• Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
• 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...
• Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
  -- Senator Soape...