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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

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

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul… For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

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