Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. – Plato
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Plato – Shower Psalms Post 202
Writing is the geometry of the soul. – Plato
Plato – Shower Psalms Post 193
It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul. – Plato
Plato – Shower Psalms Post 184
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
Plato – Shower Psalms Post 175
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision. – Plato
Plato – Shower Psalms Post 165
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, […]
Plato – Shower Psalms Post 156
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. – Plato
Plato – Shower Psalms Post 148
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers […]
Plato – Shower Psalms Post 140
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. – Plato
Plato – Shower Psalms Post 132
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God. – Plato