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.
PLATOThe price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
More Plato Quotes
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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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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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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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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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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