Musical training is a more potent instru... by Plato | We Heart Quotes

philosopher Philosophy Ancient Greece Athens Socrates

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

- Plato

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

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