Necessity is the mother of invention.
PLATOMusical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
More Plato Quotes
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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