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

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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sa...more

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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning

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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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[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think tha...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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[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think tha...more

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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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States are as the men are they grow out of human characters.