Quotes by Plato

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.