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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. – Socrates.


Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. - Plato.


Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. - Plato.


No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato.


Parents can only give good advice or put them (children) on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank.


Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle.


This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. – Aristotle.


Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. – Aristotle.


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