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• No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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  Plato, Want, Teach

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

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  Beauty, Inspirational Life, Simple

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.89, Anchor

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• Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

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  Argument, Probability, Idle

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• Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

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  Government, Democracy, Mob Rule

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• The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

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  Men, Giving, Perfect

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• Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

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  Equality, Delight

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• One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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  Art, Philosophical, Men

  Plato (1942). “Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic”

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• I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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  Fasting, Efficiency, Greater

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• The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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  Men, Political, Good Man

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• Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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  Vices, Virtue, Involuntary

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• No soul willfully does wrong.

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  Soul, Doe

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• All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

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  Ignorance, My Own, Knows

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• Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

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  Justice, Stronger, Advantage

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• Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

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  Agreement, Symphony, Harmony

  Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.905, e-artnow

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• Music gives a soul to the universe.

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  Music, Wings, Giving

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• The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

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  Beauty, Wings, Soul

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• The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

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  New Year, Happy New Year, Character

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• Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

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  Leadership, Children, Humorous

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• Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

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  Animal, Men, Savages

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• Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

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  Inspiration, Sadness, Order

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• Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

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  Persuasion, Knows, Seeking

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• Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

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  Children, Games, Soul

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• Even the gods love jokes.

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  Love, Funny Inspirational, Laughter

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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  Philosophical, Men, May

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Soul, Musical, Way

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