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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

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We become what we contemplate.

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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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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 handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

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