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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

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So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

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