MUSIC - PLATO QUOTES
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
DEMOCRACY - PLATO QUOTES
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
ASTRONOMY - PLATO QUOTES
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
HARD WORK - PLATO QUOTES
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
KNOWLEDGE - PLATO QUOTES
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
UTOPIA - PLATO QUOTES
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
VIRTUE - PLATO QUOTES
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
EQUALITY - PLATO QUOTES
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.
STATE - PLATO QUOTES
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
ACCOMPLISHED MAN - PLATO QUOTES
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.