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

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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

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For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

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A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason h...more

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The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

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I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has ...more

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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

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The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one...more

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the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledg...more

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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are d...more

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...in the running of cities, virtually nothing is done by anyone that is conducive to political health, nor is there a single ally with whom one might...more

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There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey whi...more

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We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it...more

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.