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.
PLATOMusical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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