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Soul Quotes by Plato

102 Soul quotes by Plato

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Inaccurate language can plant evil in a soul, as Plato warns that words shape inner character. The soul seeks the good and follows rhythm and harmony, making the body reflect its moral state. Qualities we admire in others often mirror the hidden parts of our own soul.

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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

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A house that has a library in it has a soul.

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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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No soul willfully does wrong.

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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

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“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it…

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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and…

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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest…

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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less…

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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest…

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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be…

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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…

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“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm…

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“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether…

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All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by…

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He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make…

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“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he…

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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the…

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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the…

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If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too…

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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often…

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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two…

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth… He whose desires…

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In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order.…

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“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great…

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“Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.”

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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

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Knowledge is the food of the soul.

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