Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
PlatoArithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
PlatoThere is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.
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