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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.
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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
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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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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.
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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
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Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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Only the dead will know the end of the war.
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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
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