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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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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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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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SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?

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What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

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Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

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The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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