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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

By Plato

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

By Plato

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

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

By Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Love

By Plato

Life must be lived as play. Life

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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

By Plato

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

By Plato

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

By Plato

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. N.B.: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also: Napoleon Bonaparte.

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The beginning is the most important part of the work. Art

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Your silence gives consent.

By Plato

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters

By Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

By Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation

By Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

By Plato

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

By Plato

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

By Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something.

By Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something

By Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

By Plato

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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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.

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

By Plato