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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Character Man Measure One Liner Power
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Behaviour Character Desire Emotion Flow Human Knowledge
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.
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Change Danger Fundamental Law Music State
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Alive Humour Man Wisdom Wise
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Die Dirty Grow Help Nourish People Person
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Empowerment Expectation Men Teaching Women Women Empowerment
A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Book House Library One Liner Soul
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Alone Believe Culture Inspirational Shadow Understand
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Children Education Effective Kind Play
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Dumb Engage Government Politics Punishment Smart
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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Art Children Learning Music Philosophy Science Teaching
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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Acquire Body Compulsion Education Exercise Knowledge Mind Obtain
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Aim Evil Knowledge One Liner Virtue
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Excess Individual Liberty Slavery State
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Death Happen Men One Liner Wost
But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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One Liner Truth Victory

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