The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!
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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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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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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors o...
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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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...
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Love - a grave mental disease.
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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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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone ...
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For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no ...
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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 ...
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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...
