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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

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The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

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Every man is a poet when he is in love.

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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

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We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

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