“love,' she said, 'may be described generally as the love of the everlasting possession of the good?” — Plato Copy Share Image
“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is… — Plato Copy Share Image
The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion. — Plato Copy Share Image
“And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours… — Plato Copy Share Image
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being… — Plato Copy Share Image
Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete. — 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
“he who would proceed in due course should love first one fair form, and then many, and learn the connexion of them;… — Plato Copy Share Image
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp — 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
“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he… — Plato Copy Share Image
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato Copy Share Image
No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
