"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."
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"A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service."
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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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"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
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"That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way."
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"Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants."
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"An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man."
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"A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well."
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"We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things."
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"Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before."
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"The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit."
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"And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well."
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"For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom."
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"I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive."
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"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire."
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"Writing is the geometry of the soul."
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"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."
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"Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention."
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"One man cannot practice many arts with success."
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"Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied."
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