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.
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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.
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Plato Quotes
- Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
- The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
- To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
- For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
- Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
- When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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