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Plato Quotes - Page 8

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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Cash, Makers, Standards

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

Soul, Body, Made

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Music, Dance, Secret Places

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Love, Men, Enemy

Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.142, Catholic Way Publishing

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

Math, Form, Pure

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

Beauty, Character, Hands

Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

People, Would Be, Body

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Body, Pleasure, Charm

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.210, Xist Publishing

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

Reflection, Impression, Contradictory

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Love, Romantic, Song

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

Order, Simplicity, Everyday

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

Life Is, Family Life, Disgrace

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Men, Good Man, Answers

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Music, Plato, Soul

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

Men, Water Of Life, Doctrine

Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

Truth is its own reward.

Truth, Plato, Rewards

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

Art, Children, Thinking

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Argument, Probability, Idle

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.

Men, Giving, Perfect

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Desire, Virtue

Source: www.goodreads.com

No soul willfully does wrong.

Soul, Doe

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

Plato, Sick, Physicians

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Beauty, Inspirational Life, Simple

Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.89, Anchor

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

Fasting, Efficiency, Greater

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

Inspiring, Liars, Critics

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