For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.
PlutarchChildren ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
PlutarchTo the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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