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Plato
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.
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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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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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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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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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Wealth and poverty one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.
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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all
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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
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Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
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