Plato

And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people’s champion.

Plato

And what do you say of lovers of wine… they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

Plato

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other’s sight, as I may say, even for a moment…

Plato

And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?

Plato

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Plato

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

Plato

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Plato

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light.

Plato

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato