Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men..
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….
The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union..
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader..
Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible..
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and c….
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves..
...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that ….
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth..
Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure..
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral….
They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they g….
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too bi….
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful..
I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life..
It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is mee….
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals.
If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior ….
We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the s….
He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of….