The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATOGood people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
More Plato Quotes
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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