Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
PLATOExcess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
More Plato Quotes
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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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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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