And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
PlatoWe ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
PlatoSo their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.
PlatoHence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
Plato