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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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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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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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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of th...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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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