Did Plato say “Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”?
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Did Plato say “Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”?
Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Plato. Source and location below.
Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
The Republic — Plato, BOOK VII. · ¶3477 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #1497 · source
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0