Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Plato Quotes
- To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
- It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
- 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.
- There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
- Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
- 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.
- They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
- 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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