Plato

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

Plato

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Plato

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Plato

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Plato

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Plato

As the government is, such will be the man.

Plato

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Plato

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

Plato

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

Plato