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“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. ”

—Plato

“John Adams was a farmer. Abraham Lincoln was a small-town lawyer. Plato, Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate judgment and wisdom with occupation is at best insulting.”

—Benedict Valda

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

—Plato, The Republic

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy of life comes when men are afraid of the light.”

—Plato

“Perhaps, Socrates, there is some truth in the old saying that everything beautiful is difficult. ”

—Glaucon to Socrates, Plato’s Republic, Book IV

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless. ”

—Plato. The Republic

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”

-PLATO

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

—Plato
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