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Body Quotes by Plato

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Music is to the mind as air is to the body. Plato says a healthy soul makes the body feel right, and that trying to force learning hurts the mind more than the muscles. He also warns that treating the body without caring for the soul misses the real cure.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm…

“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable…

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