I 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.
PLATOThere 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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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There is truth in wine and children.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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