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... consider what one might say on the education of free children , and by what training they would become good citizens . § II . It is perhaps best to begin with birth : I would therefore warn those who desire to be fathers of notable sons ...
... consider what one might say on the education of free children , and by what training they would become good citizens . § II . It is perhaps best to begin with birth : I would therefore warn those who desire to be fathers of notable sons ...
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... Consider in their marriages how much the animals follow nature . For they do not wait for any legislation about bachelor or late - married , like the citizens of Lycurgus and Solon , nor do they fear penalties for childlessness , nor ...
... Consider in their marriages how much the animals follow nature . For they do not wait for any legislation about bachelor or late - married , like the citizens of Lycurgus and Solon , nor do they fear penalties for childlessness , nor ...
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... considering these examples for us to follow , while disgrace justly attaches to our inhumanity , for mankind only is accused of having no disinterested affection , and of not knowing how to love except in regard to advantage . For that ...
... considering these examples for us to follow , while disgrace justly attaches to our inhumanity , for mankind only is accused of having no disinterested affection , and of not knowing how to love except in regard to advantage . For that ...
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... consider Ares a god , or only a human passion ? " And Pemptides , answering that he looked on Ares as god of the passionate and manly element in man- kind , " What , " cried my father , " shall the passionate and warlike and ...
... consider Ares a god , or only a human passion ? " And Pemptides , answering that he looked on Ares as god of the passionate and manly element in man- kind , " What , " cried my father , " shall the passionate and warlike and ...
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... consider , before we proceed any further , whether Love yields to any of the gods in power . Certainly , as Sophocles says , ' Wonderful is the power which the Cyprian Queen exerts so as always to win the victory : great also is the ...
... consider , before we proceed any further , whether Love yields to any of the gods in power . Certainly , as Sophocles says , ' Wonderful is the power which the Cyprian Queen exerts so as always to win the victory : great also is the ...
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