The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting. Plato More Quotes by Plato More Quotes From Plato Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject. Plato serious-man writing men When the music changes, the walls of the city shake. Plato shakes wall cities Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. Plato philosophical ignorance evil The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. Plato immortality soul men Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly. Plato folly arrogance Music is to the mind as air is to the body. Plato body air mind By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name. Plato names men mean .. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations. Plato discipline greatness opposites Necessity is literally the mother of invention. Plato invention mother In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection. Plato men order mean ... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined. Plato government law opportunity No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. Plato blessing men death The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise. Plato arriving soul forever When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war Plato tyrants war peace Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible. Plato priorities care people All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy. Plato blessed names love And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. Plato essence love-is order So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. Plato clarity noble strong Your dog is your only philosopher. Plato philosopher dog It is right to give every man his due. Plato dues giving men
