The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
PLATOOne of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
More Plato Quotes
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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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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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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