“Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?” Republic
There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. Book II
Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life. Book VII
There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. Essays
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