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He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

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The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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You cannot go into the same water twice.

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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You can't do good if you don't feel good.

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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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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.

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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

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Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

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