Necessity is the mother of invention.
PLATOI would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
More Plato Quotes
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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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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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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