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Philosophy is the highest music.

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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 grea...more

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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

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Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes...The power t...more

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement;...more

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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, whe...more

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So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul th...more

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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

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Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

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Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but...more