Date: 380-360 B.C.
"When soul and body are both in the same place, nature teaches the one to serve and be subject, the other to rule and govern."
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Date: 370-300 B.C.
"So too when you state the next point in your argument, that those who train their bodies but neglect their souls are guilty of another action of the same sort--neglecting the part that should rule, and attending to that which should be ruled."
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Date: c. 370-365 B.C.
"After this their happiness depends upon their self-control; if the better elements of the mind which lead to order and philosophy prevail, then they pass their life here in happiness and harmony--masters of themselves and orderly--enslaving the vicious and emancipating the virtuous elements of t...
preview | full record— Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)