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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through ...more

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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the ha...more

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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings a...more

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

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Time is the moving image of eternity.

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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quic...more

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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All learning has an emotional base.