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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
Plato
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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
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The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
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There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.
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The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.
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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
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You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
Plato
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Music is a defining element of character.
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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
Plato
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay.
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One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
Plato
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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?
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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.
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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.
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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
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