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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Behaviour Character Desire Emotion Flow Human Knowledge
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Dead Deep Healing Lesson One Liner War
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Direction Except Hands People Satisfaction Selfish Time Want
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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Art Children Learning Music Philosophy Science Teaching
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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Instrument Music Place Rhythm Soul Training
Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Inspirational Life Man One Liner Seach
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Government Inferior Penalty Politics Rule Yourself
Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Disappointment Evil Hurt Ignorance One Liner Root Sad
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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Adopt Character Depend Happiness Himself Live Man Moderation Planning Wisdom
He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Ashamed Honour Involvement Love Lover
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Aim Evil Knowledge One Liner Virtue
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Acquire Character Deal Divine Himself Philosophy Republic
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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Change Danger Fundamental Law Music State
Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Knowledge Learning Teaching
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Excess Individual Liberty Slavery State
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love One Liner Pursuit

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