Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
PLATOAll learning has an emotional base.
More Plato Quotes
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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