Plato/biography

Famous quotes containing the words plato and/or biography:

“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
—Richard Holmes (b. 1945)