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.
PLATOMan is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
More Plato Quotes
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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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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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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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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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
PLATO