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| The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. | | Children; Education | |
| The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. | | Uncategorized | |
| The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. | | Uncategorized | |
| The music masters familiarizes children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole o | | Uncategorized | |
| The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way | | Passion | |
| The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men | | Evil; Men | |
| The popular notion is that there were financial considerations as to why he did what he did, and I'm not here to disabuse you of that, | | Uncategorized | |
| The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men | | Uncategorized | |
| The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. | | Uncategorized | |
| The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men | | Government; Punishment | |
| The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, whether at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the State. | | Uncategorized | |
| The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention | | Uncategorized | |
| The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I me | | Uncategorized | |
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| Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded | | Uncategorized | |
| There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power. | | Uncategorized | |
