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Plato quote: "Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the..."
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato
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. Plato
What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to be its opposite, namely pain! A man cannot have both at the same time. Yet if he pursues and catches the one, he is almost always bound to catch the other also, like two creatures with one head. Plato
But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. Plato
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig? Plato
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have. Plato
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. Plato
But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing; he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name by way of illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing. Plato
Plato quote: "[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in..."
[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men. Plato
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. Plato
Plato quote: "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,..."
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. Plato
this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others, Plato
Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together with fire -- since by no means without fire could it be acquired or helpfully used by any -- and he handed it there and then as a gift to man. Plato
Plato quote: "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is..."
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato

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