Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
PLATOThose who don’t know must learn from those who do.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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