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- The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of…
- That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It…
- In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill...…
- The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
- Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
- The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
- For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without…
- We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to…
- Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
- The wisest have the most authority.
- The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
- And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives…
- Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
- It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part,…
- To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
- The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
- The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time…
- Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and…
- To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
- ... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole…
- ...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have…
- And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent…
- Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster