Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
PLATOTime is the moving image of reality.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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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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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 price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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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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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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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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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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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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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
PLATO