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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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

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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

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

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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