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.
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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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