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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe
And the only life which looks down upon the life of political ambition is that of true philosophy. Do you know of any other?: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic (Plato's Cave)
Only the dead have seen the end of war.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

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