Quotes from Plato

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Man is a biped without feathers.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

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

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

Music is a defining element of character.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it