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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
Plato
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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
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We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.
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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
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We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.
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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
Plato