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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

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The beginning is half of the whole.

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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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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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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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Pleasure is the bait of sin

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Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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The wisest have the most authority.

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

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

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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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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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