"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."
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"Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly."
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"All learning is in the learner, not the teacher."
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"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."
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"Even the gods love jokes."
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"If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake."
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"Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos."
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"The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken."
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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
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"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
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"Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties."
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"One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison."
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
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"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?"
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"Music is a defining element of character."
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"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
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"My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"
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"Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul"
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"Democracy passes into despotism."
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"No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death."
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