Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who… — Plato Copy Share Image
Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort. — Plato Copy Share Image
What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful… — Plato Copy Share Image
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink. — Plato Copy Share Image
Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato Copy Share Image
Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route. — Plato Copy Share Image
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object… — Plato Copy Share Image
For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts;… — Plato Copy Share Image
“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only… — Plato Copy Share Image
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the… — Plato Copy Share Image
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. — Plato Copy Share Image
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest… — Plato Copy Share Image
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my… — Plato Copy Share Image
The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share Image
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share Image
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share Image
