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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

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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.

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The wisest have the most authority.

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When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

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for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

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