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• One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
  -- John Stuart Mill...
• The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
  -- Plato (BC 427?-347?)...
• In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead
  he one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence....
• Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
  -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.), [quoting Plato]...
• Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Socrates, quoting Plato
• Without the Greeks, we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns - Corinthian, Doric and Ironic.
  They also had myths.A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable....
• The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, whether at home or abroad
  hey may be allowed to lie for the good of the State. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic...
• Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded.
  .. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "Phaedru...
• The wisest have the most authority. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)