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Letter "P" » Plato Quotes
«Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand»
«The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I me»
«A kiss, and touch of lips; not strange my Soul should cling - Strive to cross, weep to turn, and starve with me poor thing»
«Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.»
«To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.»
«We are twice armed if we fight with faith.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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armed, arming, faith, fight, take arms, take up arms, twice, under arms
«Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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acknowledgement, atheism, compel, divine power, obstinate, pressing
«Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, arises, democracy, dictatorship, dictatorships, extreme, naturally, slavery, tyranny
«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.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Music
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charm, charmed, flight, gaieties, gaiety, gives, imagination, in flight, law, moral, music, on the wing, take flight, the universe, universe, wings
«Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.»
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