Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

— Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

— Plato

And whenever anyone informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

— Plato

...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he is 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 yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

— Plato

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

— Plato

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

— Plato

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

— Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet

— Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

— Plato