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

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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

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The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

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The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

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