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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

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Plato
Epigrammatist
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Ancient Athens
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Aristocles
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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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Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
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We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
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The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.
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No soul willfully does wrong.
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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Only the dead will know the end of the war.
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You must base the Wisdom on Love.
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Ideas are the source of all things
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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
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Truth is its own reward.
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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
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