"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...
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompan...
"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
"Knowledge is the food of the soul.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with...
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.