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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

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Every man is a poet when he is in love.

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

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For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

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Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no ...more

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I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has ...more

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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

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The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is n...more

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The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one...more

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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by...more