Plato Quotes About Exercise

Quotes about: Exercise

• Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

  Plato

  Fitness, Workout, Exercise

• We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

  Plato

  Exercise, Mind, Body

• They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Exercise

  Republic III.405.D

• There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

  Plato

  Children, Teaching, Exercise

• So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

  Plato

  Wise, Exercise, Class

• Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

  Plato

  Teaching, Wine, Exercise

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