Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.
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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these.
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A good civilization spreads over us like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilization stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things But to unlearn things.
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