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.
PLATOPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
More Plato Quotes
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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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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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Man 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.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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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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