“Philosophy is the highest music.”
– Plato
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
– Plato
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
– Plato
“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”
– Plato
“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”
– Plato
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
– Plato
“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
– Plato
“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”
– Plato
“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”
– Plato
“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
– Plato
“There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
– Plato
“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
– Plato
“Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.”
– Plato
“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
– Plato
“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.”
– Plato
“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”
– Plato
“Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.”
– Plato
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
– Plato
“They certainly give very strange names to diseases.”
– Plato
“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”
– Plato
“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”
– Plato
“To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.”
– Plato
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
– Plato
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
– Plato
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato
“It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
– Plato
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
– Plato
“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”
– Plato
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
– Plato
“Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.”
– Plato