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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

~Plato

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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I would fain grow old learning many things.

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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.

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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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