The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful. — 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
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil. — 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
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens… — Plato Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient. — 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
“love,' she said, 'may be described generally as the love of the everlasting possession of the good?” — Plato Copy Share Image
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato Copy Share Image
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have… — 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
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for… — 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
But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than… — Plato Copy Share Image
The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Plato asked Socrates what is love... Socrates: Go into the field and get me the most special leaf... Plato returned with no… — Plato Copy Share Image
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their… — Plato Copy Share Image
“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for… — Plato Copy Share Image
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles?… — Plato Copy Share Image
“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it… — 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
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
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