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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the b...more

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, correspondin...more

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my...more

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

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All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

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Knowledge is the food of the soul.

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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens l...more

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... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come f...more

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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet

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if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great nonsense of mortality, b...more