At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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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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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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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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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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