Quotes by Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

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.

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

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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