A life without investigation is not worth living.
PLATOAn empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
More Plato Quotes
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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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.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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