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Plato Quotes


Life must be lived as play.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

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.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Necessity... the mother of invention.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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

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.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.