In the eyes of all reformers such as Plato, the "body politic" could not operate without interference from the top.

在所有的改革者(比如柏拉图)看来，没有来自上层的干预，国家将无以为继。

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The great enterprise of defining art consists of a string of failures and losers, including the big shots such as Plato, Aristotle and Tolstoy.

为艺术下定义的伟大事业，是一串失败和失败者，其中有柏拉图、亚里士多德和托尔斯泰这样的大腕。

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Socrates, the famous philosopher who was condemned to death in 399 BC, allegedly for corrupting the young, greatly influenced later Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle.

著名哲学家苏格拉底在公元前399年因为被指控犯有腐蚀年轻人之罪被处死，他对后来的希腊哲学家如柏拉图和亚里士多德等人产生了重大的影响。

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It took thousands of peasants beyond the Agora to support the work of one intellectual aristocrat such as Plato or Aristophanes.

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Socrates and Plato were deeply interested in the ideas of sophists such as Protagoras and Gorgias because their ideas were profound.

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