Plato Is Quotations

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

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

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

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.

Truth is its own reward.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

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.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Love is a grave mental illness.

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.

Love is a severe mental disorder.

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.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

Love is a serious mental disease.