Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
PLATOAt the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
More Plato Quotes
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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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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