Philosophy is the highest music.
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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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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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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