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.
PLATOAn empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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