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.
PLATOMusical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
More Plato Quotes
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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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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Love is a serious mental disease.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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