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Love Quotes by Plato

141 Love quotes by Plato

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Plato notes that love between a man and a woman starts as instinct but can become a conscious choice. He also speaks of a love for truth that outlasts changing sensations and inspires poetry. The philosopher’s love for knowledge is shown as a path toward unchanging reality.

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Your dog is your only philosopher.

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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

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You must base the Wisdom on Love.

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Love is a grave mental illness.

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No one ever dies an atheist…

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God ever geometrizes.

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A work well begun is half-ended.

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The God of Love lives in a state of need.

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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

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“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”

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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies…

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Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the…

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs…

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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one…

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/plato_4.htmlixzz1bRZ5zZp1

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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his…

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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/plato_7.htmlixzz1bRaRiaaD

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“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of…

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Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest,…

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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from…

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“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects…

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When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then…

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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among…

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“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion…

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“The lesser mysteries of love For he who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful form;…

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“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he…

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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles?…

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“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it…

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“Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is…

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“I perceived how foolish I had been in consenting to take my turn with you in praising love, and saying that I…

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“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for…

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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their…

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For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm…

“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable…

Geometry existed before creation.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men…