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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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Truth is its own reward.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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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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It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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