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For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

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A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason h...more

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

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

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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

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All learning has an emotional base.

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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with...more

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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

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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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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.