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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Music, Life, Mind

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Men, Wise, Speak

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Fear, Life, Men

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Education, Life, Future

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Knowledge, Three, Desire

We are twice armed if we fight with faith. - Plato

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Faith, Fight, Twice

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Power, End, Political

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Strength, Good, Others

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Politics, End, Governed

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Good, Bad, While

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Music, Education, Soul

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Ignorance, Evil, Root

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge, Good, Decision

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Love, Good, Wise

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Democracy, Liberty, Tyranny

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Equality, Government, Democracy

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Men, Wise, Might

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Knowledge, Between, Ignorance

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.

Heart, Another, Everyone

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Art, Work, Beginning

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Help, Die, Either

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Wise, Beer, Invented

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Inspirational, Thinking, Soul

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Anger, Cannot, Help

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. - Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Enough, Earth, Virtue

Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 427 BC

Died: 347 BC

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