Plato Quotes, Soul Quotes

The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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Art has no end but its own perfection.

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The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

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You can't do good if you don't feel good.

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The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

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The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

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True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

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