Quotes from Plato

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

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

Love is a grave mental illness.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

Love is a severe mental disorder.

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

The God of Love lives in a state of need.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.