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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Amuse Children Discover Education Force Genius Harsh Learning Mind Train
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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Determine Direction Education Future Life Man Start
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Beginning Inspirational Republic Success Work
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Desire Law Moderate Terrible Wild
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Die Dirty Grow Help Nourish People Person
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Accomplishment Entrepreneur Hero Inspirational Man Wise
The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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Arrive Bliss Dwell Flight Forever Invisible Paradise Soul World
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Children Desire Education Inspirational Teaching Truth
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Excess Individual Liberty Slavery State
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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Change Danger Fundamental Law Music State
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Good Harm Help Man Selfish
He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Darkness Love One Liner Touch Walk
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Empowerment Expectation Men Teaching Women Women Empowerment
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Gain Honor Love Lover Men Wisdom
At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Love One Liner Poetry Romantic
All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Attitude Extent Ignorance

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