Plato

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Plato

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Plato

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Plato

According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

Plato

Truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Plato

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

Plato

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Plato

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

Plato

And such men, you know, before finding out in what way something they desire can exist, put that question aside so they won’t grow weary deliberating about what’s possible and not.

Plato