Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that… — Plato Copy Share Image
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace… — Plato Copy Share Image
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from… — Plato Copy Share Image
When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of… — Plato Copy Share Image
For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see… — Plato Copy Share Image
“isn’t this why the rearing in music is most sovereign? Because rhythm and harmony most of all insinuate themselves into the inmost… — Plato Copy Share Image
Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of… — Plato Copy Share Image
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument… — Plato Copy Share Image
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and… — Plato Copy Share Image
“For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says,… — Plato Copy Share Image
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should… — Plato Copy Share Image
The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and… — 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
“[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of… — 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 are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are… — Plato Copy Share Image
The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life… — Plato Copy Share Image
How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles -… — Plato Copy Share Image
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly… — Plato Copy Share Image
Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any… — Plato Copy Share Image
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring… — 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