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Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

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You should not honor men more than truth.

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