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

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

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We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

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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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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

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

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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

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