Body Quotes by Plato

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

— Plato

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

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Music is to the mind as air is to the body...

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

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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves…

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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence,…

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the…

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of…

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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of…

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Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function…

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Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by…

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The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot…

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The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells…

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The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind…

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In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for…

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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &…

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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth…

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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not…

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Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to…

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

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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the…

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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt…

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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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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

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The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although…

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better…

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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of…

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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for…

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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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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to…

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Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll…

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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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