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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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

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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

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We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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