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.
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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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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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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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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