Quotes from Plato

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

...the Gods too love a joke.

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

God is truth and light his shadow.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.