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• Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. -- Plato (428-347 or 348 B.C.)
• If you can discover a better way of life than office-holding for your future rulers, a well-governed city becomes a possibility.
  For only in such a state will those rule who are truly rich, not in gold, but in the wealth that makes happiness--a good and wise life....
• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
  Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amuseme...
• The opposite of present is (a)past (b)future (c)abse
• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic", Book II. 369C...
• The life which is unexamined is not worth living. -- Plato
• Education is danger....At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissable.
  Every educated person is a future enemy....
• Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call.
  There is one direction in which all space is open to him. Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body
  but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind....