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

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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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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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For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

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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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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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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.