When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATOMusical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
More Plato Quotes
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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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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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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