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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
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By Plato
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"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
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By Plato
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"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. "
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
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"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
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"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses."
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"For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind."
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"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."
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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 sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."
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"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
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