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Only the dead will know the end of the war.

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

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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

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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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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

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

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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

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For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

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