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For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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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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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

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The beginning is half of the whole.

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

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

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

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The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

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