"Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony."
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"Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way."
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"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any."
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"A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
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"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act"
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"Those who tell the stories rule society."
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"Happiness springs from doing good and helping others."
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"All wars are fought for the sake of getting money."
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"I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men."
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"Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy."
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"The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them."
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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."
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"We become what we contemplate."
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"Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure."
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"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
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"The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life."
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"No human thing is of serious importance."
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"He who does not desire power is fit to hold it."
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"Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right."
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"The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being."
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