Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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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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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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