Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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 is truth in wine and children.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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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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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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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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All learning has an emotional base.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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