Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable


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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to ...
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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The good is the beautiful.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly ...
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compuls...
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, f...
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich...
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than ev...
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of e...
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeabl...
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either ...
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like Go...
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely ...
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time d...
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simpl...
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The wisest have the most authority
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking u...
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Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best p...
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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
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Even the gods love jokes
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since sty...
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should ...
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it ...
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of in...
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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