Plato quote about violence from The Republic - For a fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.
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For a fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.
 Plato, The Republic. copy citation

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Author Plato
Source The Republic
Topic violence laughter excess
Date
Language English
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Note Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm

Context

“Yes, I replied; but that surely is what ought not to be, as the argument has just proved to us; and by that proof we must abide until it is disproved by a better.
It ought not to be.
Neither ought our guardians to be given to laughter. For a fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.
So I believe.
Then persons of worth, even if only mortal men, must not be represented as overcome by laughter, and still less must such a representation of the gods be allowed.
Still less of the gods, as you say, he replied.” source

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