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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. ↗

— Plato

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. ↗

— Plato

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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ↗

— Plato

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. ↗

— Plato

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Life must be lived as play. ↗

— Plato

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ↗

— Plato

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. ↗

— Plato

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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. ↗

— Plato

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Your silence gives consent. ↗

— Plato

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