“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato Copy Share Image
Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete. — Plato Copy Share Image
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato Copy Share Image
Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no… — Plato Copy Share Image
For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for… — Plato Copy Share Image
“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who… — Plato Copy Share Image
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires. — Plato Copy Share Image
“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects… — Plato Copy Share Image
When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of… — Plato Copy Share Image
When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then… — Plato Copy Share Image
Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the… — Plato Copy Share Image
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that… — Plato Copy Share Image
Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire,… — Plato Copy Share Image
No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury… — Plato Copy Share Image
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth… He whose desires… — Plato Copy Share Image
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato Copy Share Image
Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I… — Plato Copy Share Image
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' — Plato Copy Share Image
“To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public… — Plato Copy Share Image
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men… — Plato Copy Share
