Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
PLATOMan is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
More Plato Quotes
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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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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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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