Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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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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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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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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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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