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our definition of right education. For the safekeeping of this depends, as I now conjecture, upon the correct establishment of the institution mentioned.Clinias
That is a strong statement!Athenian
What I state is this,—that in children the first childish sensations are pleasure and pain, and that it is in these first that goodness and badness come to the soul; but as to wisdom and settled true opinions, a man is lucky if they come to him even in old age and; he that is possessed of these blessings, and all that they comprise,
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