It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the… — Plato Copy Share Image
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too… — Plato Copy Share Image
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not… — Plato Copy Share Image
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although… — Plato Copy Share Image
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. — Plato Copy Share Image
Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by… — Plato Copy Share Image
The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells… — Plato Copy Share Image
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better… — Plato Copy Share Image
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. — Plato Copy Share Image
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for… — Plato Copy Share Image
Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth… — Plato Copy Share Image
We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of… — Plato Copy Share Image
The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind… — Plato Copy Share Image
Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned. — Plato Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll… — Plato Copy Share Image
For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for… — Plato Copy Share Image
The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot… — Plato Copy Share Image
You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt… — Plato Copy Share Image
Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt. — Plato Copy Share Image
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he… — Plato Copy Share Image
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. — Plato Copy Share Image
From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less… — Plato Copy Share Image
Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function… — Plato Copy Share Image
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of… — Plato Copy Share Image
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the… — 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
