Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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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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