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

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Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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

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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

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A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason h...more

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.