False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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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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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 was a wise man who invented God.
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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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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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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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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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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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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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