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.
PLATOAny man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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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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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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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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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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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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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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