Plato Quotes About Wine
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There is truth in wine and children
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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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Wine fills the heart with courage.
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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine
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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.
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