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
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — 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
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his… — Plato Copy Share Image
“And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you… — Plato Copy Share Image
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — 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
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst… — Plato Copy Share Image
Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul. — Plato Copy Share Image
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other… — Plato Copy Share Image
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it… — Plato Copy Share Image
The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be… — 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
